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Whittling

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A chip or shaving whittled from some larger substance. plural-normally
  2. 2
    The art of carving shapes out of raw wood using a knife.
  3. 3
    A process of repeatedly shaving slivers from a piece of wood (non-artistic).
  4. 4
    The reducing of something by degrees, especially at the expense of some effort. broadly, figuratively

    "a whittling down"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of whittle form-of, gerund, participle, present

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