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(transitive) To apply acupressure to.
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(transitive, obsolete) To cut off.
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(transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
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(law) An exception to a legal provision.
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(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
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(intransitive) To split.
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(film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
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(obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.
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(architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
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(obsolete) Anything docked or cut short.
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(usually with "with", often in the negative) To have influence (on something, especially someone's opinion); to be accepted or tolerated (by).
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Alternative form of cutback [A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.]
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A piece cut out of something.
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(medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
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Alternative form of cut-out [A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.]
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(archaic, rare, transitive) To cut short.
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(obsolete, rare) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
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to turn from the original or plain meaning
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(transitive) To shorten by cutting; to lop off.
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The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
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(obsolete, rare) To put in gyves or shackles.
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To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
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To fade from a cut to black in a movie.
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(idiomatic, by extension) The group that remains when a selection process has eliminated other candidates.
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That which is or has been forecut.
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(countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
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(intransitive) Of a tissue, structure, or part of an organ: to protrude through the muscular tissue or the membrane by which it is normally contained, causing a hernia.
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(transitive) To make something hollow.
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The act of something being impaled.
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(obsolete) To strike or stamp in.
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That which is cut off; leavings.
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(informal) To fix problems; to correct or repair.
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To deprive of a limb; to lop.
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(formal) The act of lopping or cutting off.
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An offcut; a piece that has been cut off.
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(transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut across; cross.
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(transitive) To obliterate by painting over.
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A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
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The material cut off in this way.
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[+object] (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
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(idiomatic) To isolate or identify one particular thing from a collection that includes less relevant things.
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(transitive, informal) To slice up (as if for sushi).
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To compact a substance (usually soil) until it is flat.
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(computing) A crashdump.
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The act of cutting off the top of something.
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To bore through something.
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(transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
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A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
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One who, or that which, unmakes; a destroyer.
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(television, radio) A cutting too short, so that a small portion is lost or overlaps the adjoining item.
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