Retrench

1. v. i. To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
2. v. t. To cut off; to pare away.
3. v. t. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.
4. v. t. To confine; to limit; to restrict.
5. v. t. To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.