cut

1. verb

1)

the knife slipped and cut his finger

Syn:

gash, slash, lacerate, sever, slit, pierce, penetrate, wound, injure; scratch, graze, nick, incise, score; lance

2)

cut the pepper into small pieces

Syn:

chop, cut up, slice, dice, cube, mince; carve, hash

3)

cut back the new growth to about half its length

he should get his hair cut

Syn:

trim, snip, clip, crop, barber, shear, shave; pare; prune, lop, dock; mow

4)

I went to cut some flowers

Syn:

pick, pluck, gather; literary cull

5)

lettering had been cut into the stonework

Syn:

carve, engrave, incise, etch, score; chisel, whittle

6)

the government cut public spending

Syn:

reduce, cut back/down on, decrease, lessen, retrench, trim, slim down; rationalize, downsize, lower, slash, chop

7)

the text has been substantially cut

Syn:

shorten, abridge, condense, abbreviate, truncate; edit; bowdlerize, expurgate

8)

you need to cut at least ten lines per page

Syn:

delete, remove, take out, excise, blue-pencil, chop

9)

oil supplies to the area had been cut

Syn:

discontinue, break off, suspend, interrupt; stop, end, put an end to

10)

the point where the line cuts the vertical axis

Syn:

cross, intersect, bisect; meet, join

11)

she was suspended for cutting classes

Syn:

skip, miss, play truant from; informal ditch, play hooky from

2. noun

1)

a cut on his jaw

Syn:

gash, slash, laceration, incision, wound, injury; scratch, graze, nick

2)

a cut of beef

Syn:

piece, section

3) informal

the directors are demanding their cut

Syn:

share, portion, bit, quota, percentage; informal slice, piece of the pie, piece of the action

4)

his hair was in need of a cut

Syn:

haircut, trim, clip, crop

5)

a smart cut of the whip

Syn:

blow, slash, stroke

6)

he followed this with the unkindest cut of all

Syn:

insult, slight, affront, slap in the face, jibe, barb, cutting remark, put-down, dig

7)

a cut in interest rates

Syn:

reduction, cutback, decrease, lessening, rollback

8)

the elegant cut of his jacket

Syn:

style, design; tailoring, lines, fit

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- cut back

- cut down

- cut and dried

- cut in

- cut off

- cut out

- cut out of

- cut short