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reduce
To become reduced
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  1. To become reduced
  2. To bring into a certain order; systematize
  3. To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness:
curtail
To cut short or reduce:
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  1. To cut short or reduce:
  2. To cut short; reduce; abridge
shorten
(Intransitive) To become shorter.
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  1. (Intransitive) To become shorter.
  2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
  3. To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
retrench
(Archaic) To remove, delete, or omit.
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  1. (Archaic) To remove, delete, or omit.
  2. To cut down or reduce.
  3. To reduce expenses; economize
Find another word for cut-back. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for cut-back, like: reduce, curtail, shorten, retrench, decrease and cut.

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  • When horizontal trees have fallen into disorder, the branches may be cut back to within 9 in.

  • In well-developed shoots the buds are generally double, or rather triple, a wood bud growing between two fruit buds; the shoot must be cut back to one of these, or else to a wood bud alone, so that a young shoot may be produced to draw up the sap beyond the fruit, this being generally desirable to secure its proper swelling.

  • To prepare the vine for planting, it should be cut back to within 2 ft.

  • The shoots are cut back to buds close to the stem, which should be encouraged to form alternately at equal distances right and left, by removing those buds from the original shoot which are not conveniently placed.

  • It is a small bush propagated from cuttings which are left to grow for three years; the leaves are then stripped, except a few buds which develop next year into young shoots, these being cut and sold in bunches under the name of khat mubarak; next year on the branches cut back new shoots grow; these are sold as khat malhani, or second-year kat, which commands the highest price.

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