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Cut   /kət/   Listen
Cut

verb
(past & past part. cut; pres. part. cutting)
1.
Separate with or as if with an instrument.
2.
Cut down on; make a reduction in.  Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down.  "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
3.
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.  Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer.  "The motorbike veered to the right"
4.
Make an incision or separation.
5.
Discharge from a group.
6.
Form by probing, penetrating, or digging.  "Cut trenches" , "The sweat cut little rivulets into her face"
7.
Style and tailor in a certain fashion.  Synonym: tailor.
8.
Hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction.
9.
Make out and issue.  Synonyms: issue, make out, write out.  "Cut a ticket" , "Please make the check out to me"
10.
Cut and assemble the components of.  Synonyms: edit, edit out.  "Cut recording tape"
11.
Intentionally fail to attend.  Synonym: skip.
12.
Be able to manage or manage successfully.  Synonym: hack.  "She could not cut the long days in the office"
13.
Give the appearance or impression of.
14.
Move (one's fist).
15.
Pass directly and often in haste.
16.
Pass through or across.
17.
Make an abrupt change of image or sound.
18.
Stop filming.
19.
Make a recording of.  "She cut all of her major titles again"
20.
Record a performance on (a medium).
21.
Create by duplicating data.  Synonym: burn.  "Burn a CD"
22.
Form or shape by cutting or incising.
23.
Perform or carry out.
24.
Function as a cutting instrument.
25.
Allow incision or separation.
26.
Divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult.  "She cut the deck for a long time"
27.
Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.  Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out.  "Cut the engine" , "Turn out the lights"
28.
Reap or harvest.
29.
Fell by sawing; hew.
30.
Penetrate injuriously.
31.
Refuse to acknowledge.  Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub.
32.
Shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of.
33.
Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things.  Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize.
34.
Dissolve by breaking down the fat of.
35.
Have a reducing effect.
36.
Cease, stop.  Synonym: cut off.  "We had to cut short the conversation"
37.
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.  Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten.
38.
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.  Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out.
39.
Have grow through the gums.
40.
Grow through the gums.
41.
Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses).  Synonym: geld.
noun
1.
A share of the profits.
2.
(film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next.
3.
A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation.  Synonym: gash.
4.
A step on some scale.
5.
A wound made by cutting.  Synonyms: gash, slash, slice.
6.
A piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass.  Synonym: cut of meat.
7.
A remark capable of wounding mentally.  Synonym: stinger.
8.
A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc.  Synonym: track.  "The title track of the album"
9.
The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage.  Synonyms: deletion, excision.  "Both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
10.
The style in which a garment is cut.
11.
A canal made by erosion or excavation.
12.
A refusal to recognize someone you know.  Synonyms: cold shoulder, snub.
13.
In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball.  Synonyms: baseball swing, swing.
14.
(sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball.  Synonym: undercut.
15.
The division of a deck of cards before dealing.  Synonym: cutting.  "The cutting of the cards soon became a ritual"
16.
The act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge.  Synonym: cutting.
17.
The act of cutting something into parts.  Synonym: cutting.  "His cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"
18.
The act of shortening something by chopping off the ends.  Synonyms: cutting, cutting off.
19.
The act of reducing the amount or number.
20.
An unexcused absence from class.
adjective
1.
Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.  "Cut tobacco" , "Blood from his cut forehead" , "Bandages on her cut wrists"
2.
Fashioned or shaped by cutting.  "Cut diamonds" , "Cut velvet"
3.
With parts removed.  Synonym: shortened.
4.
Made neat and tidy by trimming.  Synonym: trimmed.
5.
(used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine.  Synonym: mown.
6.
(of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit.
7.
(of a male animal) having the testicles removed.  Synonyms: emasculated, gelded.
8.
(used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply.  Synonym: slashed.
9.
Mixed with water.  Synonyms: thinned, weakened.  "A cup of thinned soup"



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... united troops of England and Spain, commanded by the famous Captain Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. An utterly beaten infantry, the Constable Montmorency and several generals taken prisoner, the Duke d'Enghien mortally wounded, the flower of the nobility cut down like grass,—such were the terrible results of a battle which plunged France into mourning, and which would have been a blot on the reign of Henry II, had not the Duke of Guise obtained a brilliant revenge ...
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... had been given to metaphysical researches, she would have found much pleasure in tracing the queer involutions of that network of wisdom that our forefathers devised, which their sons have labored to explain, and of which the sword had already cut some of the more difficult knots. Not being a statesman or a philosopher, she could only wonder and grow sad in contemplating the future that she saw impending over those for whom she had ...
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... of the stringent watch against refugees the population has so enlarged that rations have again been cut. Mrs H says she doesnt know where the next meal is coming from, but I feel she exaggerates. Farmers, I hear, absolutely refuse to ...
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... the proud castle, clad in her festal garments, and with a palm-branch in her hand, he and his poor brotherhood met her at the chapel-door, with lighted tapers and hymns of praise, and led her to the altar. Francis cut off her long golden hair, and threw his own penitential habit over her. She became his disciple, daughter, and friend, never wavering, though exposed to dangers and trials of the severest character. Under his direction, she formed the famous order ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger
... Two other glassfuls went the way of the first, and the negro refilled the carafe. The man pulled angrily at his limp collar and discussed his order. Vacillating for a time between broiled lobster and porterhouse steak with mushrooms, he cut the matter short by taking both, and buttressed the main structure of the meal with side dishes of banana fritters and griddle-cakes. He decided that peach short-cake and tutti-frutti ice cream would stop the gap for desert [Transcriber's note: dessert?], and expressed a preference ...
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