Translation of whittle – English–German dictionary
whittle
verb
/ˈwitl/ (Translation of whittle from the PASSWORD English–German Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
Examples of whittle
whittle
Drugstore's expansive experimentalism fostered obscurity in a conflation of diverse marginal styles, while jazu-kissa whittled their singular collections down to perfectly contained and delineated generic repertoires.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
By the time the 50p is received it will have been whittled away by the grabbing hand of galloping inflation.
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The philosophy is easy-first parsing - we make the easy calls first, whittling away at the harder decisions in the process.
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They are in no wise whittled down or tampered with; but an anomaly is removed.
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Are we adequately provided with playgrounds, and if we are not, how can we justify this whittling down?
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In the whittled down form it is true that this anachronism has an advantage to the accused which tips the scales in his favour.
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Whittle was able to go further, proving, in a slightly simpler case, a separation theorem that implies our certainty equivalence theorem in that case.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Such faith, moreover, would whittle away at the onslaughts of sin and cultivate a ' vivifying ' righteousness that spoke volumes to the enquiring soul.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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