whittles down (verb) trim: cut shorter
Sinonime: abbreviate, barber, blue pencil, bob, boil down, clip, crop,
curtail,
cut, cut back, cut down,
dock,
edit, even up, lop, mow, pare, pare down,
plane, prune, put in a nutshell, shave, shear, shorten, slice off, snip,
tidy, truncate, whittle down
Antonime: develop, let grow