whittling
/wˈɪtlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The reducing of something by degrees, especially at the expense of some effort.
Example Sentences
- "a whittling down"
- "Result: nothing would prevent the rapid destruction of the Deco District. Already the developers are calling for a whittling down of the original square mile to a few blocks. The few blocks will no doubt be whittled down to one building, and in the end all that will be left will be a Deco mailbox well pissed on by the local dogs. In another era it was called salami tactics."