home/glossary/whittle down

whittle down

verbid 23657·updated Jun 3, 2026
verified

cut away in small pieces

MWE

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Cognitive

Analyze78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Responsibility

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Automation

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Variants

synonym
wear away
pasttense
whittled down
presentparticiple
whittling down
thirdpersonsingular
whittles down
pastparticiple
whittled down

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
cut away in small pieces
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
cut away in small pieces
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.