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to scale down
01
to make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity
Transitive: to scale down sth
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Separable
Particle
down
Base verb
scale
Present tense
scale down
3rd person singular
scales down
Present participle
scaling down
Past simple
scaled down
Past participle
scaled down
Examples
We scaled down the wedding guest list to fit our budget.
1.1
to reduce the size or quantity of something while keeping its proportions or ratios the same
Transitive: to scale down sth
Examples
The designer scaled down the model car to 1/10th of its original size.
