How to pronounce “cut down to size”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (informal, idiomatic) To humble or humiliate, especially someone or something that is perceived as overly domineering or too proud.
• Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut,‎ down,‎ size.

Practice Nearby Words

bring down to size, knock down to size, whittle down to size, trim down to size, bring down, humble, humiliate, depress, bring low, demean, reduce, cut down, put someone in their place, lower, soften someone's cough, take down a notch, enhumble, diminutize, do down, downcast, bring down a peg, knock down a peg, dial down a notch, 'umble, belittle, bring down a notch, pull someone down a peg, humblify, set down, take down a peg, decrown, knock down a notch, downscale, abate, chasten, pare, diminish, downgrade, move down a peg, deject, downstrike, beat down, chop down, put down, pull down a notch, slim down, talk down to, move down a notch, put to shame, downsize, abase, swallow one's pride, stoop, afflict, descend, pull someone's plumes, cut someone's comb, put a pin in, unpedestal, abject, smallify, tamp down, dial down, downplay, cut back, eat one's pride, hollow out, demote, flatten, drop, embase, skinny, pare down, phase down, eat dirt, downshift, key down, mediocritize, scale down, sink, subdue, de-emphasize, mow down, dumbsize, make little of, down, downtrod, take down, minimize, look down on, downtone, retrench, debase, smallen, inferiorize, small, attenuate, cut someone off at the knees, shorten, derogate

Similar Sounds

contuses, cadences, cottontails, contessas, adonises, statuses, sadnesses, sadducees, skepticize, skin disease