Verb

• S: (v) cut back, flash back (return in time) "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"
• S: (v) reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down (cut down on; make a reduction in) "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
• S: (v) snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of) "dress the plants in the garden"
• S: (v) restrict, curtail, curb, cut back (place restrictions on) "curtail drinking in school"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) limit, circumscribe, confine to (restrict or confine within limits) "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"; "please confine your questions to the topic"; "our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born"
• S: (v) hold down (restrain) "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"
• S: (v) number, keep down (place a limit on the number of)
• S: (v) cap (restrict the number or amount of) "We had to cap the number of people we can accept into our club"
• S: (v) restrict, curtail, curb, cut back (place restrictions on) "curtail drinking in school"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame