n
(figuratively) A drastic reduction or cutback.
v
(transitive, obsolete, land) To cut up; cut open; open up.
v
(transitive) To cut about; cut around; cut up; cut off; sever.
n
(music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
v
Alternative form of cantle [(obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.]
v
(obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
n
(slang) The distribution of something, as of money or booty.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten
v
(transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
n
A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
v
To reduce, especially intentionally.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic, slang, Scotland) To go around.
v
To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
v
(idiomatic) To suffice; to be effective or successful.
adj
Alternative form of cut from the same cloth [(idiomatic, of two or more persons or things) Very similar; possessing many of the same fundamental characteristics.]
v
(slang, intransitive) To break wind.
v
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
v
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
v
(chiefly US, idiomatic) Synonym of cut a wide swath
v
Synonym of split the baby
v
Synonym of cut the Gordian knot
v
(dated) to get to the point, to cut to the chase
v
To cut, chop, slice etc. so as to form smaller pieces.
v
(figuratively) To discuss the underlying sensitive or unpleasant root of a given topic.
v
(transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
n
Alternative spelling of cutup [Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for example, by playing practical jokes.]
n
A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.
n
(informal) Someone who cuts off someone or something.
n
(informal, rare) Someone who cuts off something.
adj
(of audio or video) Having many cuts.
n
(literature) A work produced by the aleatory literary technique of cutting up and rearranging a written text to create a new text.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To make harmless.
n
(idiomatic) Any obscure work, a thing likely to be recognized only by a connoisseur.
v
(transitive) To cut into small cubes.
v
(manufacturing, intransitive) To cut with dies; to use a die to shear webs of low-strength material.
v
(transitive) to cut off, as wool from sheep's tails, or horns from a cattle; to lop or clip off
v
(obsolete) To make a decision by casting lots.
n
(US, slang) A high-pressure salesman.
v
(comedy) To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
v
(obsolete) to cut to pieces, hack, chop up.
v
(transitive, archaic) To cut into; cut through; cut completely; cut in pieces; cut up; injure by cutting.
v
(obsolete) To cut; plow.
v
(transitive) To remove by hacking; to cut off
v
(transitive, by extension) To destroy.
v
(transitive) To cut something using a jigsaw.
n
Alternative form of monkeywrenching [The commission of usually illegal acts of sabotage motivated by environmentalism.]
v
Synonym of tar with the same brush
v
To cut hair with a parting; shed.
v
(idiomatic, US, automotive) To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.
v
To reduce (something) incrementally (for example, to cut a budget by gradually removing sums of money from it).
v
(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
v
To remove something by scratching.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To select only that which is of value.
v
(transitive) To cut and chop to pieces.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To rend asunder; cleave.
v
(transitive, dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
v
(transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
v
Alternative form of separate the wheat from the chaff [(idiomatic, intransitive) To select only that which is of value.]
v
Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
v
(transitive) To strip; to unroof.
v
(intransitive, dialectal, obsolete) To split apart; break.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cut to pieces; hew asunder; cut greatly.
v
(obsolete) To cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To tear apart, rend to pieces, rip up.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To tear apart, rend to pieces; tear up.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cleave or tear in pieces.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To rive in pieces; rend.
v
(obsolete) To cut in two.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cleave or split in pieces.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To split into slivers or small pieces.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To split, separate; go to pieces.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To tread in pieces.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To carve; to slice.
v
(transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
v
Alternative form of separate the wheat from the chaff [(idiomatic, intransitive) To select only that which is of value.]
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