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Meaning of "whittled away"
whittled away - This phrase describes the gradual reduction or elimination of something, typically in a slow and meticulous manner, as if carving away small pieces like wood whittling
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whittled away
The way she whittled away at my friends.
In subsequent years this directive was whittled away.
We whittled away at the fine principles.
The program was gradually whittled away.
The contestants are whittled away week by week until the winner eventually emerges.
We have seen the limitations on government whittled away.
The counts of Capua whittled away at his princely authority and territory.
The rights of indigenous people have been whittled away.
But Moscow has whittled away at the edge Western navies gained after the Cold War.
The autonomy of the courts was whittled away.
Soon, it will be whittled away by the loggers.
Our disposable income in our pockets actually is being whittled away.
Las, the gain is often whittled away by the costs of these products.
We refused to allow our other foreign policy priorities to be whittled away still further.
Battered and whittled away by the elements, their lives are very short indeed.
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Our voice is being whittled away.
But human activity has whittled away the region 's forests, leaving only fragmented patches.
It can either be invested toward the future or whittled away in the present.
As he whittled away at his stick Long gone, long gone.
These remaining communities were later whittled away at in other events.
EM growth supports - cheap valuations and easy financial conditions - are being whittled away.
Land reserved for Aboriginal people was steadily whittled away after its original allocation.
If there are no restrictions to entry, a large market share can be whittled away.
Chakra that's whittled away by my Samehada becomes mine.
Successive changes implemented by the federal government have whittled away at those practices.
Chakra that 's whittled away by my Samehada becomes mine . You are right.
The arguments against women 's suffrage began to be whittled away.
Thank you… yes, whittled away at it till I was satisfied.
As a result, many firms may see their margins being whittled away.
Guns N ' Roses ' original lineup was whittled away throughout the decade.
We must reverse the trend whereby these widows ' pensions are being whittled away.
I have the mill to run, my time can't be whittled away in these petty affairs.
But these preferences, the mainstay of many Caribbean economies, are slowly being whittled away.
You have presided over the demise of your sect, whittled away your strength.
You have presided over the demise of your own sect, whittled away.
By printing Bibles in the common tongue, we have whittled away our own superiority.
Back in Hollywood, the production code had gradually been whittled away.
But it does, and it 's being whittled away too.
Once again, the powers of the European Parliament have been whittled away.
Unleashed right-wing mobs have attacked minorities, while the government has whittled away at minority rights.
However, recently in the US, some of those rights have been whittled away.
Free university education-a major gain for social democracy-is being gradually whittled away across the world.
While they haven't been destroyed, both have been whittled away at.
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I see you whittled them down a bit
In subsequent years this directive was whittled away
I whittled it myself out of a solid bough of oak
