The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABASE , but the solution may also be CROP which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Cut down to size crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABASE | 32 % | 5 |
| ABASED | 20 % | 6 |
| DEMEAN | 12 % | 6 |
| PARE | 12 % | 4 |
| CROP | 8 % | 4 |
| REDUCE | 4 % | 6 |
| SHORTENED | 4 % | 9 |
| EDIT | 4 % | 4 |
| CROPPED | 4 % | 7 |
Why may ABASE be the right solution?
The word "abase" means to behave in a way that makes someone feel belittled or degraded. "Cut down to size" means to belittle or humble someone. Therefore, "abase" is an appropriate answer to the clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Cut down to size
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- diminish
- embase
- downgrade
- reduce
- vitiation
- downgrader
- pluto
- washed up
- degradation
- downmarket
- devaluate
- deflate
Crossword Answer definitions
ABASE verb- To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABASE
More clues leading to the result ABASED
- Brought down
- Humiliated
- Dragged down
- Humbled
- Degraded
- Took down more than a peg
- Lowered in rank
- Belittled
- Demeaned
- Shamed
More clues leading to the result DEMEAN
- Take down a peg
- Abase
- Lower in dignity
- Put down
- Cut down to size
- Humble
- Humiliate
- Lower in status
- Take down a few pegs
- Hardly dignify
More clues leading to the result PARE
- Cut (down), as expenses
- Get the carrots ready
- Cut back
- Trim
- Whittle down
- Fix apples for a pie
- Skin
- Trim down
- Remove the skin of
- Cut the skin from
More clues leading to the result CROP
- Harvest haul
- Rider's whip
- Trim
- Farmer's concern
- Riding whip
- Trim a hedge or photograph
- Jockey's whip
- __-duster (kind of airplane)
- Cut short
- Cut, as an ex-friend from a picture
More clues leading to the result REDUCE
- Minimize
- Cut down to size
- Knock off
- Slim down
- Boil down
- Discount
- Be a good loser?
- Diet
- Turn down
- Lower in degree
More clues leading to the result SHORTENED
More clues leading to the result EDIT
- Blue-pencil
- Emulate Maxwell Perkins
- More than proofread
- Prepare for publication
- Redact
- Revamp a text
- Revise
- Rework, as a story
- Trim the copy
- Update