slim down

phrasal verb

slimmed down; slimming down; slims down

: to lose weight : to become thinner

: to make (something) smaller : reduce

We have to slim down the company's advertising budget.

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Denny's will also ease up on its requirement for restaurants to be open 24/7 and slim down its menu, going to 46 from 97 options, CNN reported. —

Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024 In the last 12 months 56% of women and almost 42% of men have tried to slim down. —

Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024 While Pesto is expected to slim down in the coming weeks, that doesn't mean his fifteen minutes of fame will come to an end. —

Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024 The job cuts represent about a quarter of Dyson's U.K. workforce and is part of an effort to slim down its global footprint of roughly 15,000 employees, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the layoffs. —

Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for slim down