cut down

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive, literally) To cut downward.
2. (literally, transitive) To adulterate a drug.
3. (transitive) To bring down by cutting.
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To insult, to belittle.
5. (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
6. (dated, idiomatic) To slay, often in great numbers.
7. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To shoot a gun; to shoot (someone or many people), usually to kill them.
8. (slang, transitive) To challenge (someone); to prove superiority to (someone).

Adj

Having been cut down; reduced in strength or power.

Synonyms

fell

reduce

cut off

cut out

cut

shorten

chop down

prune

bring down

curtail

cut back

hew

kill

🔪🩸👤

decrease

chop

knock down

cut up

down

trim

restrict

diminish

slash

slay

abridge

drop

strike down

lower

mow

cut down on

trim down

push down

hack

lessen

abbreviate

get down

operate

lop off

mutilate

snap off

murder

trim back

shortened

retrench

tear out

tear off

split

slaughter

prune out

cut down to

limit

make down

pull down

chop off

reap

reduced

release

relegate

save

scant

sclaff

scythe

send

shave

shoot dead

shortening

shrink

slit

spill

stint

straiten

subjugate

subside

swallow

tackle

tear up

tickle

tip over

topple

transfuse

tumble

turn

turn over

upset

whittle down

break into pieces

cut open

cut the throat of

cut to pieces

downscale

hew down

scotch

throw down

cut and hang down

cut shorter

slash downward

fell a tree

chopped off

reduse

cut someone’s down to size

make economics

allow to go

contain

tump over

abase

amputate

attack

👊

bag

beat

behead

bowl over

break

break through

broadside

bushwhack

butcher

circumscribe

coldcock

confine

constrict

contract

cramp

crib

curtailed

cut away

cut short

degrade

destroy

destroyed

dodge

downgrade

dull

dump

economize

excise

fall

flatten

harvest

hewn

injure

knock over

level

lighten

localise

localize

log

loosen

lop

machete

minimize

mow down

mutilated

overthrow

overturn

pour

pour out

recede

Translations

abattre

fällen

talar

tagliare

cortar

tumbar

amputare

réduire

diminuer

abschneiden