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Whittle down   /wˈɪtəl daʊn/   Listen
Whittle down

verb
1.
Cut away in small pieces.  Synonyms: wear away, whittle away.






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"Whittle down" Quotes from Famous Books



... and entail smacked of inequality and alienation of rights by one generation against the next. Although his Statute on Religious Freedom was not passed until 1786, each session after 1776 saw Jefferson successfully whittle down the privileges of the once-established Anglican Church. From 1776 until 1778 Jefferson, Wythe, and Pendleton labored on a revision of the state law code, but only a part of their code was adopted. A revised criminal code was not fully ...
— The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 • Virginia State Dept. of Education

... violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non-resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self-suffering. He admits of no exception to whittle down this great and divine law of love. He applies it to all ...
— A Letter to a Hindu • Leo Tolstoy



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