| cut down | | |
| v. (change) | 1. bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| ~ shorten | make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration.; "He shortened his trip due to illness" |
| ~ spill | reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail). |
| ~ quench | reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance. |
| ~ cut | have a reducing effect.; "This cuts into my earnings" |
| ~ retrench | make a reduction, as in one's workforce.; "The company had to retrench" |
| ~ slash | cut drastically.; "Prices were slashed" |
| ~ thin out | make sparse.; "thin out the young plants" |
| ~ thin | make thin or thinner.; "Thin the solution" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| ~ detract, take away | take away a part from; diminish.; "His bad manners detract from his good character" |
| ~ deflate | reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices.; "deflate the currency" |
| ~ inflate | increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value.; "inflate the currency" |
| ~ downsize | reduce in size or number.; "the company downsized its research staff" |
| ~ subtract | take off or away.; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French" |
| ~ knock off, shave | cut the price of. |
| v. (contact) | 2. cut down, slash | cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 3. cut down, down, knock down, pull down, push down | cause to come or go down.; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" |
| ~ submarine | bring down with a blow to the legs. |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| v. (competition) | 4. cut down, cut out | intercept (a player). |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ hold back, arrest, turn back, contain, stop, check | hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" |
| v. (contact) | 5. cut down, mow | cut with a blade or mower.; "mow the grass" |
| ~ scythe | cut with a scythe.; "scythe grass or grain" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 6. cut down, drop, fell, strike down | cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow.; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" |
| ~ chop down | cut down.; "George chopped down the cherry tree" |
| ~ poleax, poleaxe | fell with or as if with a poleax. |
| ~ log, lumber | cut lumber, as in woods and forests. |
| ~ cut | fell by sawing; hew.; "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| tuba | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. bass horn, sousaphone, tuba | the lowest brass wind instrument. |
| ~ bass | the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments. |
| ~ brass instrument, brass | a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece. |
| ~ euphonium | a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family. |
| ~ bombardon, helicon | a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician. |
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