0 past simple and past participle of whittle --
1 to make something from a piece of wood by cutting off small, thin pieces: --
It would not matter how numerous these were because, eventually, they would be whittled down.
We do not want it whittled down merely to that particular type of letter which contains an invitation to do business.
But bit by bit the decisiveness of action was whittled away—not by intention or anything of that kind, but it just happened.
That right has been whittled away in many areas and people no longer have the right to cross-examine their accuser.
Have they already whittled down the conditions implied in their own pledges?
If this is granted it will certainly be the forerunner of many similar demands and proposals, and we shall have the parks gradually whittled away.
Though the list is inadequate, we feel deep disquiet that these rights are being whittled away.
The assessors whittled this down by certain disallowances to £13,600.
