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

cut out

shorten

chop down

curtail

bring down

prune

hew

kill

🔪🩸👤

cut back

decrease

trim

down

cut up

chop

knock down

strike down

trim down

slay

drop

push down

mow

diminish

lessen

hack

restrict

cut down on

abridge

slash

lower

tear out

tear off

shortened

abbreviate

slaughter

split

lop off

pull down

mutilate

operate

reap

limit

murder

chop off

retrench

get down

snap off

Translations

abattre

fällen

talar

cortar

tagliare

tumbar

réduire

diminuer

amputare

abschneiden

couper

rebajar

derrubar

abbattere

amputar