Usually means: Reduce or remove by chopping.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word cut down:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut down: Merriam-Webster
  2. cut down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cut down: Vocabulary.com
  4. cut-down: Wordnik
  5. cut down: Wiktionary
  6. cut down: Dictionary.com
  7. cut down: Rhymezone
  8. cut down: FreeDictionary.org
  9. cut down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. cut down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. cut down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut down: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cut down: Urban Dictionary
  3. Cut down: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cut down)

verb:  (intransitive, literally) To cut downward.
verb:  (transitive, literally) To adulterate a drug.
verb:  (transitive) To bring down by cutting.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To insult, to belittle.
verb:  (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
verb:  (idiomatic, dated) To slay, often in great numbers.
verb:  (slang, intransitive, transitive) To shoot a gun; to shoot (someone or many people), usually to kill them.
verb:  (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To challenge (someone); to prove superiority to (someone).
adjective:  Having been cut down; reduced in strength or power.

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