Adjacent Words
cut one's teethcut out
cut out for
cut price
cut rate
cut short
Cut stone
cut teeth on
cut the mustard
cut through
cut time
cut to
cut to ribbons
cut to the chase
cut to the quick
cut up about
cut-and-dried
cut-and-dry
cut-and-paste
cut-and-thrust
cut-and-try
cut-away
cut-back
cut-glass
cut-grass
cut-in
cut-off
cut-off velocity
Cut-out
cut-price
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: cut into pieces v
1: cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" [syn: carve, cut up]
2: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work" [syn: mutilate, mangle, cut up]
3: separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!" [syn: compartmentalize, compartmentalise, cut up]
4: significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: hack, cut up]
Merriam Webster's
verb Date: 1580transitive verb 1. a. to cut into parts or piecesb. to injure or damage by or as if by cutting; gash, slash 2. to subject to hostile criticism; censureintransitive verb 1. to undergo being cut up2. to behave in a comic, boisterous, or unruly manner; clown
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
1. If you cut something up, you cut it into several pieces. He sits in his apartment cutting up magazines... Halve the tomatoes, then cut them up coarsely. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P see also cut up 2. If one driver cuts another driver up, the first driver goes too close in front of the second one, for example after passing them. They were crossing from lane to lane, cutting everyone up. PHRASAL VERB: V n P
Moby Thesaurus
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