to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
to chip (off); to shave (off); to slice (off); to dampen (e.g. enthusiasm); to discourage; to weaken
deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out
to shave off; to scrape off
cut; reduction; curtailment
to chip off; to scrape off; to prune
to undergo great hardships; to waste away from great effort and worry
to machine; to cut; to scrape
plane; sharpen; whittle; pare; shave (leather); scrape off
to split; to be split; to splinter
to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords
correction; looking over; touching up
rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed
to scrape off; to plane off
to diminish (dampen) the spirit
to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords
to shave off; to scrape off
shaving; planing; cutting; shavings; flakes
rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed
cost reduction; cost saving
rock drill; pneumatic drill; jackhammer
excavation; cutting; digging
sharp reduction; drastic cut
cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle; cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut
additions and deletions; adding and deleting; revisions; to add and to delete; to revise
force reduction; troop reduction
to shave off (esp. concrete); to take a percentage; to take a cut
to have one's nose mutilated; to have one's nose cut off
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty; START
hoof trimming; hoof cutting
tunnel boring machine; TBM
grinder; grinding machine
to be dampened; to be discouraged; to be weakened; to be reduced
designing a font; creating a new character not currently available
excavation (esp. of a tunnel); drivage
additions and deletions; adding and deleting; revisions; to add and to delete; to revise
shaving (usu. concrete, paintwork, etc.); chipping
centerless grinding; centreless grinding
centerless grinding; centreless grinding
carbon dioxide reducing obligation
Government Paperwork Elimination Act (USA)
cutting stock (extra material cut off in machining operations as a safety margin for tolerances); machining allowance
stored message deletion; MS
wooden flower whittled from a log
unabridged edition; unabridged version; uncut edition; unexpurgated edition
cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)
pencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends
pencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends
pencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends
teeth clipping; teeth filing