Banting [verb]
Definition of Banting:
make less; decrease
Synonyms of Banting:
● Trim
● Lower
● Cut
● Dwindle
● Shorten
● Lessen
● Pare
● Slash
● Diminish
● Curtail
● Cut down
● Weaken
● Shave
● Dilute
● Clip
● Abridge
● Slim
● Impair
● Impoverish
● Depress
● Debase
● Bankrupt
● Ruin
● Rebate
● Moderate
● Depreciate
● Truncate
● Deflate
● Break
● Discount
● Cheapen
● Diet
● Abate
● Pauperize
● Drain
● Taper
● Recede
● Contract
● Chop
● Cut back
● Step down
● Tone down
● Turn down
● Scale down
● Go on a diet
● Lose weight
● Mark down
● Nutshell
● Roll back
● Slow down
● Take off weight
● Taper off
● Wind down
Opposite/Antonyms of Banting:
● Win
● Rise
● Strengthen
● Extend
● Expand
● Raise
● Develop
● Invigorate
● Amplify
● Stretch
● Enhance
● Upgrade
● Laud
● Prolong
● Lengthen
● Grow
● Enlarge
● Praise
● Compliment
● Increase
Sentence/Example of Banting:
In some of these old settlements there are houses where the door is still opened from without by a "sneck-bant," or "finger-hole."
Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
The foregoing account shows that the Bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.
Banting, bant′ing, n. a system of diet for reducing superfluous fat.
Corybant, kor′i-bant, n. a priest of Cybele, whose rites were accompanied with noisy music and wild dances:—Eng.
Mr. Blythe is the present international bant-weight champion.
And I can stand it,' says I, 'I'd rather batten than bant any day.'