cut — English Dictionary

cut
Word-form referencescut off at the pass
Pronunciations (4)
  • /kʌt/
    Pronunciation notes
    • General-American
    • Received-Pronunciation
  • /kɐt/
    Pronunciation notes
    • Australia
    • New-Zealand
  • /kʊt/
    Pronunciation notes
    • Northern-England
  • kʌt

Verb

  1. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    You must cut this flesh from off his breast.

    Mara: We are forty against four hundred. // Klingon: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.

  2. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    Would you please cut the cake?

    Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.

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    First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.

  3. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To form or shape by cutting.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    I have three diamonds to cut today.

    Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster

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    loopholes cut through thickest shade

  4. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To wound with a knife.

    Usage
    • Slang
    • Transitive
    Examples

    We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.

  5. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    • Transitive
    Examples

    The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.

    I was inspired not to cu-cu-cu-cut / When you told me that you wanna see

  6. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.

    Usage
    • Transitive or intransitive
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

  7. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    Sarcasm cuts to the quick.

    she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard

  8. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To castrate or geld.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    to cut a horse

  9. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.

    Usage
    • Transitive
  10. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;

  11. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    Travis was cut from the team.

  12. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.

    Usage
    • Transitive
  13. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. To reduce, especially intentionally.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.

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    In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.

    The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.

  14. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.

    An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.

  15. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. To leave abruptly.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    • Slang
    • Transitive
    Synonyms
    Examples

    I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?

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    my friends and i had gone for lunch but i had to cut early and couldn't get dessert (which if you know me it's my top priority) so they got it packed and dropped off at my place without a word "open the lift and take it" ?????????? how is this real i will literally cry

  16. To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Synonyms
    Examples

    After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.

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    At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, [...] but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not [...] The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.

    The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.

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    The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.

  17. To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.

  18. To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.

    Usage
    • Transitive
  19. To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.

  20. To enter a queue in the wrong place.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.

    Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!

  21. To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    This road cuts right through downtown.

    Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.

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    Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.

  22. To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.

    Usage
    • Transitive
  23. To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.

    Usage
    • Transitive
  24. To change direction suddenly.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.

  25. To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    • Transitive
    Examples

    If you cut then I'll deal.

  26. To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.

    Usage
    • Slang
    • Transitive
    Examples

    I'll cut a check for you.

    I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.

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    to cut a deal, to cut deals

    to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal

  27. To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.

    Usage
    • Slang
    • Transitive
    Examples

    The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.

    The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.

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    Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.

  28. To exhibit (a figure having some trait).

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    The Bender family cut a very distinct profile.

    Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.

  29. To stop, disengage, or cease.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Synonyms
    Examples

    The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.

    Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!

  30. To renounce or give up.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Synonyms
  31. To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.

  32. To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.

  33. To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).

    Examples

    to cut a caper

    'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.

  34. To run or hurry.

    Usage
    • Colloquial
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    ‘Look here, you're nearest his size. Cut up to your rooms and give Ipps your dinner things and a clean shirt for him.’

    Now one of us had better cut down to Courtfield on a bike […]

Adjective

  1. Having been cut.

    Usage
    • adjective
    • error-misspelling
    • participle
    Examples
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    The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.

  2. Reduced.

    Examples

    The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.

    Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.

  3. Carved into a shape; not raw.

    Usage
    • of a gem
  4. Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.

    Usage
    • of a shot
  5. Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.

    Examples

    Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?

    That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.

  6. Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.

    Usage
    • Informal
  7. Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.

    Usage
    • Australia
    • New-Zealand
    • Slang
    Examples

    ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’

  8. Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

    Usage
    • New-Zealand
    • Slang
    Examples

    I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.

Noun

  1. The act of cutting.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    He made a fine cut with his sword.

  2. The act of cutting. An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  3. The act of cutting. A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  4. The result of cutting.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    a smooth or clear cut

  5. The result of cutting. An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  6. The result of cutting. An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound. Such a wound through human skin.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    Look at this cut on my finger!

  7. The result of cutting. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  8. The result of cutting. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove. Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    a cut through the hillside for a railroad

    which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.

  9. The result of cutting. An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  10. The result of cutting. A share or portion of profits.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation.

    The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.

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    Starting today, UE5 is free to download and use, with Epic taking a 5% cut on products created with it only after they earn over $1 million in gross revenue.

  11. The result of cutting. A decrease or deletion.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Antonyms
    Examples

    The boss took a 5% pay cut.

    The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.

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    They've made slashing cuts to the budget.

  12. The result of cutting. The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    I like the cut of that suit.

    I like the cut of that jib.

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    with eyes severe and beard of formal cut

  13. The result of cutting. A slab or slice, especially of meat.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    That’s our largest cut of meat.

    Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie.

  14. The result of cutting. A standard type of meat portion in butchery.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    The Vegas Strip is a supposedly new cut of beef.

  15. The result of cutting. A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  16. The result of cutting. Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  17. The result of cutting. In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  18. The result of cutting. In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  19. The result of cutting. A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • especially
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.

  20. The result of cutting. A particular version or edit of a film.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    the director's cut

  21. The result of cutting. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.

  22. The result of cutting. The card obtained by dividing the pack.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  23. The result of cutting. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.

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    After several experiences like this, I began to entertain a sort of respect for Kooloo, as quite a man of the world. In good sooth, he turned out to be one; in one week's time giving me the cut direct, and lounging by without even nodding. He must have taken me for part of the landscape.

  24. The result of cutting. An unkind act; a cruelty.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  25. The result of cutting. An insult.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Slang
    • Uncountable
    Examples
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    1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?"

  26. The result of cutting. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Synonyms
    Examples

    The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.

    Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).

  27. The result of cutting. A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  28. The result of cutting. A haircut.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  29. The result of cutting. The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  30. The result of cutting. A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.

    Usage
    • Internet
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.

  31. The result of cutting. A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples
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    The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].

  32. The result of cutting. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    a book illustrated with fine cuts

  33. The result of cutting. A common workhorse; a gelding.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Obsolete
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride

  34. The result of cutting. The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Dated
    • Figurative
    • Slang
    • Uncountable
  35. The result of cutting. A skein of yarn.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.

  36. The result of cutting. That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

    Usage
    • Figurative
    • Slang
    • Uncountable
    Synonyms
    Examples

    Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.

  37. The result of cutting. A notch shaved into an eyebrow.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  38. The result of cutting. A hidden, secluded, or secure place.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Slang
    • Uncountable
    Examples

    I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt

    I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up.

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    You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut.

    In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up

    Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut.

    Famous as fuck, but I’m still in the cut when they round up the troops.

    She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.

    We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.

  39. The result of cutting. The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable
  40. The result of cutting. A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.

    Usage
    • Countable
    • Figurative
    • Uncountable

Interjection

  1. An instruction to cease recording.

    Antonyms
    Related words
    Examples

    Near-synonym: scene

Adjective

  1. separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument

    Antonyms
    Examples

    the cut surface was mottled

    cut tobacco

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    blood from his cut forehead

    bandages on her cut wrists

  2. fashioned or shaped by cutting

    Antonyms
    Examples

    a well-cut suit

    cut diamonds

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    cut velvet

  3. with parts removed

    Synonyms
    Examples

    the drastically cut film

  4. made neat and tidy by trimming

    Synonyms
    Examples

    his neatly trimmed hair

  5. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine

    Synonyms
    Examples

    the smell of newly mown hay

  6. (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit

    Antonyms
    Examples

    the cut pages of the book

  7. (of a male animal) having the testicles removed

    Examples

    a cut horse

  8. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply

    Synonyms
    Examples

    the slashed prices attracted buyers

  9. mixed with water

    Examples

    sold cut whiskey

    a cup of thinned soup

Noun

  1. a share of the profits

    Examples

    everyone got a cut of the earnings

  2. (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next

    Broader terms
    Examples

    the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt

  3. a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
  4. a step on some scale

    Broader terms
    Examples

    he is a cut above the rest

  5. a wound made by cutting

    Broader terms
    Examples

    he put a bandage over the cut

  6. a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
  7. a remark capable of wounding mentally

    Synonyms
    Examples

    the unkindest cut of all

  8. a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc

    Synonyms
    Examples

    he played the first cut on the cd

    the title track of the album

  9. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

    Broader terms
    Examples

    an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors

    both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause

  10. the style in which a garment is cut

    Broader terms
    Examples

    a dress of traditional cut

  11. a canal made by erosion or excavation

    Broader terms
  12. a refusal to recognize someone you know

    Broader terms
    Examples

    the snub was clearly intentional

  13. in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball

    Broader terms
    Examples

    he took a vicious cut at the ball

  14. (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    cuts do not bother a good tennis player

  15. the division of a deck of cards before dealing

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal

    the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual

  16. the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels

  17. the act of cutting something into parts

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    his cuts were skillful

    his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess

  18. the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends

    Broader terms
    Examples

    the barber gave him a good cut

  19. the act of reducing the amount or number

    Examples

    the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget

  20. an unexcused absence from class

    Broader terms
    Examples

    he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class

Verb

  1. separate with or as if with an instrument

    Examples

    Cut the rope

  2. cut down on; make a reduction in

    Examples

    reduce your daily fat intake

    The employer wants to cut back health benefits

  3. turn sharply; change direction abruptly

    Broader terms
    Examples

    The car cut to the left at the intersection

    The motorbike veered to the right

  4. make an incision or separation

    Examples

    cut along the dotted line

  5. discharge from a group

    Broader terms
    Examples

    The coach cut two players from the team

  6. form by probing, penetrating, or digging

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a hole

    cut trenches

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    The sweat cut little rivulets into her face

  7. style and tailor in a certain fashion

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a dress

  8. hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a Ping-Pong ball

  9. make out and issue

    Broader terms
    Examples

    write out a check

    cut a ticket

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    Please make the check out to me

  10. cut and assemble the components of

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    edit film

    cut recording tape

  11. intentionally fail to attend

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut class

  12. be able to manage or manage successfully

    Synonyms
    Examples

    I can't hack it anymore

    she could not cut the long days in the office

  13. give the appearance or impression of

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a nice figure

  14. move (one's fist)

    Broader terms
    Examples

    his opponent cut upward toward his chin

  15. pass directly and often in haste

    Broader terms
    Examples

    We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner

  16. pass through or across

    Examples

    The boat cut the water

  17. make an abrupt change of image or sound

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut from one scene to another

  18. stop filming

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a movie scene

  19. make a recording of

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut the songs

    She cut all of her major titles again

  20. record a performance on (a medium)

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a record

  21. create by duplicating data

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a disk

    burn a CD

  22. form or shape by cutting or incising

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut paper dolls

  23. perform or carry out

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut a caper

  24. function as a cutting instrument

    Examples

    This knife cuts well

  25. allow incision or separation

    Broader terms
    Examples

    This bread cuts easily

  26. divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult

    Broader terms
    Examples

    Wayne cut

    She cut the deck for a long time

  27. cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

    Broader terms
    Examples

    Turn off the stereo, please

    cut the engine

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    turn out the lights

  28. reap or harvest

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut grain

  29. fell by sawing; hew

    Examples

    The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia

  30. penetrate injuriously

    Broader terms
    Examples

    The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead

  31. refuse to acknowledge

    Broader terms
    Examples

    She cut him dead at the meeting

  32. shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut my hair

  33. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

    Examples

    We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet

  34. dissolve by breaking down the fat of

    Examples

    soap cuts grease

  35. have a reducing effect

    Examples

    This cuts into my earnings

  36. cease, stop

    Synonyms
    Examples

    cut the noise

    We had to cut short the conversation

  37. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

    Examples

    The manuscript must be shortened

  38. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

    Broader terms
    Examples

    cut bourbon

  39. have grow through the gums

    Examples

    The baby cut a tooth

  40. grow through the gums

    Broader terms
    Examples

    The new tooth is cutting

  41. cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)

    Synonyms
    Examples

    the vet gelded the young horse

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