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scaled down

scaled down is the simple past and past participle of scale down.

Meaning of scale down

Verb

scale down (third-person singular simple present scales down, present participle scaling down, simple past and past participle scaled down)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.
    Antonyms:
    scale up
  2. (transitive) To reduce the cost or scope of a process, or the amount spent on something.
    Synonyms:
    scale back
    Antonyms:
    scale up, scale out

Questions about scaled down

What is scaled down the simple past and past participle of?
Scaled down is the simple past and past participle of scale down.

Words near scaled down in the dictionary

  1. scaled back
  2. scaled copies
  3. scaled copy
  4. scaled dove
  5. scaled doves
  6. scaled down
  7. scaled off
  8. scaled out
  9. scaled quail
  10. scaled quails
  11. scaled question

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scaled down (page history and authors); scale down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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