Synonyms for Bobs:
v.
•diminishes (verb)crops, reduces, truncates, concentrates, weeds, abridges, tapers, condenses, shears, depletes, decreases, decrements, pares, compresses, diminishes, compacts, dwindles, shortens, prunes, trims, Clips, downgrades, erodes, curtails, deflates, Culls, nips, drains, lessens, abbreviates, shrinks, minimizes, contracts, lightens, shaves.
•hangs (verb)
lolls, sags, hangs, draggles, dangles, nods, droops, swings, drapes, trails.
•oscillates (verb)
trembles, beats, staggers, wags, Ticks, pulsates, oscillates, teeter-totters, totters, undulates, vibrates, Pulses, throbs, seesaws, sways, vacillates, wobbles, fluctuates, radiates, rocks, alternates.
•subtracts (verb)
cuts, deducts, lowers, elides, subtracts, deletes, depreciates, docks, discounts.
Usage examples for bobs
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It was finally settled that Paul should attend Mr. MacGrawler two hours a day; that Mr. MacGrawler should be entitled to such animal comforts of meat and drink as the Mug afforded, and, moreover, to the weekly stipend of two shillings and sixpence,- the shillings for instruction in the classics, and the sixpence for all other humanities; or, as Mrs. Lobkins expressed it, " two bobs for the Latin, and a site for the vartue." – Paul Clifford, Volume 1. by Edward Bulwer-Lytton