If understand question correctly. Example: massive (BS object) landuse=farmland connected to roads forest etc. want shrink (delete) it and draw 50 proper farmland, grassland etc., but do not want to download whole area with 100k nodes just avoid deleting nodes connected to it. Safely unglue (G) it.
Select way. Using plugin 'utilsplugin2' or can be done with search (Ctrl-F) and 'child selected'. Selection > Select way nodes (Ctrl+Shif-N) Shift select way too in case. Edit > Copy (Ctrl-C). File > Download object... Object type: mixed | Object ID: should be there after Copy. Download objects.
I don't know if it will help and only solution work working in JOSM. JOSM for me. Maybe exist simple "one-click" solution, I can't find any. Other suggestion/tools don't work, atleast for me.