cut, trim, pare, lop, chop, reduction, cutbacks, axing, halving, rein, whittle, drop, curb, ballooning, austerity, ratchet, downsizes, rightsize, scrap, boost, increase, burn, prune, stave off, yank, quadruple, cull, cripple, shrinking, chuck, rip, spiralling, restructuring, shedding, mothball, pull, claw, jettisoning, hobble, furloughing, gazump, halt, freeze, slap, layoffs, doubling, scupper, ditching, rejig, hikes, whack, dump, redundancies, shuttering, scalpel, squeeze, scrape, hack, rises, chopping block, purge, meat cleaver, nix, slice, gouge, decrease, clamp, slims, scaling, reorganization, downgrade, garrotte, red ink, lessoning, turnround, rachet, crimping, pay, hiring freeze, shaves, shrivelling, fall, elimination, kickstart, rationalization, stagger, razor, flagging, cutters, supertax, sharpening, tumble, capping, overhaul, plunge, woo, busting, stab, hard up, cadge, stoke, peel, slashes, gash, lunge, flash, gashes, swipe, arrow, jab, swath, kick, shove, dash, gust, lash, stroke, dashes, lurch, streak, fiducial, plumb, align, distinctive, erosional, groove, grow, jth, mark, reference, .., 1-2-3, >, accentual, aliasing, alignment, allowed, appraisal, assumed, bevel

birch, cat, cowhide, flagellate, horsewhip, scourge, whip

gyromitra sphaerospora, round-spored gyromitra

agitate, beat, beat up, bring down, cutting, cut back, cut down, dry land, earth, ground, land, lesion, punctuation, punctuation mark, reduce, shake, solid ground, terra firma, trim back, trim down, wound

convulse, diagonal, flog, lather, separatrix, slashing, solidus, strap, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss, trounce, virgule, welt