retrench

retrench is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham.

[2] To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses. But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched. Milton.

[3] To confine; to limit; to restrict. Addison. These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation I. Taylor.

[4] To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

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