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Synonyms for bant
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bant |
| Phonetic Transcription : bænt |
Top 10 synonyms for bant Other synonyms for the word bant
- abate
- abridge
- bankrupt
- bant
- break
- cheapen
- chop
- clip
- contract
- cut back
- debase
- deflate
- depreciate
- depress
- diet
- dilute
- discount
- drain
- go on a diet
- impair
- impoverish
- lose weight
- mark down
- moderate
- nutshell
- pauperize
- rebate
- recede
- roll back
- ruin
- shave
- slash
- slim
- slow down
- step down
- take off weight
- taper
- taper off
- tone down
- trim
- truncate
- turn down
- weaken
- wind down
Définition of bant
- As in reduce : verb make less; decrease
- And I can stand it,' says I, 'I'd rather batten than bant any day.'
- Extract from : « The Gentle Grafter » by O. Henry
- Banting, bant′ing, n. a system of diet for reducing superfluous fat.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
- Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
- Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
- Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
- Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
- The foregoing account shows that the Bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
- Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
- A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.
- Extract from : « Penguin Persons & Peppermints » by Walter Prichard Eaton
Antonyms for bant
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