whittling in English

verb

1

carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it.

He volleyed as if he was using his racket to whittle wood, slicing this way and that and caressing the ball into submission.

synonyms: pare, shave, trim, carve, shape, model

verb

pare, shave, trim, carve, shape, model
erode, wear away, eat away, reduce, diminish, undermine, weaken, subvert, compromise, impair, impede, hinder, cripple, disable, enfeeble, sap
reduce, cut down, cut back, prune, trim, slim down, pare down, shrink, decrease, diminish
pare

Use "whittling" in a sentence

1. Inflation has been whittling away their savings.

2. Congress is whittling away at our freedom of speech.

3. Congress is whittling away at our civil liberties.

4. 2 Congress is whittling away at our freedom of speech.

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6. He took out his penknife and began whittling a piece of wood.

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8. Are you planning on whittling her down to a skewer for the open fire?

9. While waiting he brought out a penknife and began whittling away a table-top.

10. Inflation has been whittling away the value of state pensions for the last fifteen years.

11. He is whittling down the branch with a knife to make a handle for his hoe.

12. One Sunday he was whittling away when he was reminded by a page that it was the Sabbath.

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14. Well, imagine pulling one of your hairs out of your head and whittling it like a stick 100, 000 times.

15. Bushcraft knives are best suited for light and medium duty tasks: Batoning branches smaller than your wrist; Carving or whittling wood

16. They are behind federal agencies in other parts of the country and overseas in whittling away at piles of backlogged work.

17. However, having said that, most caricature Carvings show various tool marks but differ from whittling in their complete definition and amount of detail.

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19. Cobbling together elements from the previous definition and whittling away the unnecessary bits leaves us with the following definitions: A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

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