削る [けずる] /(v5r,vt) (1) to shave (wood, leather, etc.)/to sharpen (e.g. pencil)/to plane/to whittle/to pare/to scrape off/to erode/(v5r,vt) (2) to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.)/to curtail/to reduce/(v5r,vt) (3) to delete/to erase/to remove/to cross out/to strike out/(P)/EntL1298090/