CUT


Meaning of CUT in English

I. verb

1.

to penetrate with or as if with a sharp edge

cut his hand on a broken bottle

Synonyms: gash, incise, pierce, slash, slice, slit

Related Word: cleave, dissever, sever, sunder; rend, rip, rive, tear; lacerate, wound

2.

Synonyms: shorten , abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut back, retrench, slash

3.

Synonyms: reduce 2, clip, cut back, cut down, lower, mark down, pare, shave, slash

4.

Synonyms: mow , clip, crop

5.

to penetrate and divide with an edged tool or instrument

cut the melon into slices

Synonyms: carve, cleave, dissect, dissever, sever, slice, split, sunder

Related Word: divide, part, separate; chop, dice, hash, mince, mow

Idioms: lay open

6.

to reduce by severing parts

the barber cut his hair too short

Synonyms: clip, crop, pare, prune, shave, shear, skive, trim

Related Word: cut back, dock, lop, poll, pollard, shrub; amputate; curtail

7.

to refuse social recognition especially by way of rebuke

his friends cut him after the scandal broke

Synonyms: cold-shoulder, ostracize, snob, snub

Related Word: disdain, ignore, rebuff, reject, slight, turn away; affront, insult, offend

Idioms: give the cold shoulder (to), show one his place, slam the door in one's face, slam the door on, slap one in the face, turn aside ( or away) from, turn one's back (on or upon)

8.

Synonyms: dilute , thin, weaken

9.

Synonyms: fell 2, chop, hew

10.

Synonyms: operate 2, open up

II. noun

1.

Synonyms: part 1, division, member, moiety, parcel, piece, portion, section, segment

2.

Synonyms: share 1, allotment, allowance, bite, lot, part, partage, portion, quota, slice

3.

Synonyms: trench , ditch

4.

Synonyms: type , cast, description, feather, ilk, kind, lot, mold, sort, stamp

III. adjective

Synonyms: intoxicated 1, ||bagged, ||blotto, ||boozed, ||canned, cockeyed, ||crocked, drunk, drunken, ||lit

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