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(transitive or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife. / (transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).

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whittle

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Source Word

whittle

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈʍɪtəl/

intransitive transitive figuratively

Japanese Meaning

ナイフなどを使って木材を削り、形を整える / 徐々に減らす、または少なくしていく（例：債務などを）

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After dinner, he likes to whittle small wooden animals to relax.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

夕食後、彼はリラックスするために小さな木の動物をナイフで削るのが好きだ。

Sense（1）

(transitive or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.

He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).

Sense（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.

When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

whittles

（ present singular third-person ）

whittling

（ participle present ）

whittled

（ participle past ）

whittled

（ past ）

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