winnowverb [ T ]
uk/ˈwɪn.əʊ/us/ˈwɪn.oʊ/to blow the chaff (= the outer coverings) from grain before it can be used as food
formal to reduce a large number of people or things to a much smaller number by judging their quality:
A list of 15 applicants has been winnowed down to three.
a winnowing process
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Removing the skin or seed from fruit & vegetables
- core
- hull
- pare
- peel
- pit
- pitted
- seed
- seeded
- shell
- shuck
- skinless
- stone
- stoned
- top
- top and tail idiom
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Becoming and making smaller or less