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Nouns (21)

cut

n. an unexcused absence from class; "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class"

cut

n. the act of reducing the amount or number; "the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget"

cut

n. a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball

cut

n. a canal made by erosion or excavation

cut

n. the style in which a garment is cut; "a dress of traditional cut"

cut

n. (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next; "the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt"

cut

n. a share of the profits; "everyone got a cut of the earnings"

cut

n. a step on some scale; "he is a cut above the rest"

cutting

n. the act of cutting something into parts; "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"

cutting

n. the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge; "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels"

cutting

n. the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"; "the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual"

deletion

n. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"

stinger

n. a remark capable of wounding mentally; "the unkindest cut of all"

cut of meat

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

scissor

n. a function that removes data electronically and writes them elsewhere

cutting, cutting off

n. the act of shortening something by choping off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut"

swing, baseball swing

n. in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball"

snub, cold shoulder

n. a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"

Verbs (31)

cut

v. separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

cut

v. stop filming; "cut a movie scene"

cut off

v. cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"

hit with a spin

v. hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction; "cut a Ping-Pong ball"

separate with an instrument

v. separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

cut out

v. create by cutting; "She cut a hole into the fabric"

cut away

v. move (one's fist); "his opponent cut upward toward his chin"

skip

v. intentionally fail to attend; "cut class"

edit, edit out

v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

cut short, cut through

v. abridge or shorten

prune, rationalize

v. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"

disregard, snub, ignore

v. refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"

style, tailor

v. style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress"

ostracize, ostracise

v. avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"

clip, scissor

v. cut out boundaries of a signal, image or a word

bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten

v. cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"

reduce, thin, dilute, thin out

v. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (19)

cut

adj. separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists"

cut

adj. (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit; "the cut pages of the book"

cut

adj. fashioned or shaped by cutting; "a well-cut suit"; "cut diamonds"; "cut velvet"

shortened

adj. with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"

cut-rate

adj. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply; "the slashed prices attracted buyers"

mown

adj. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of newly mown hay"

trimmed

adj. made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair"

weakened, thinned

adj. mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned soup"

cut down, hewn

adj. cut down: "felled trees covered the hillside"

split, slashed, gashed

adj. wounded by cutting deeply; "got a gashed arm in a knife fight"; "had a slashed cheek from the broken glass"

sexless, emasculated, gelded

adj. (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse"

sheared, shorn

adj. having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep"

Fuzzynyms (169)

conduit, channel

n. a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits"

passage

n. a section of text; particularly a section of medium length

sweep

n. a movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm"

blow

n. a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon; "a blow on the head"

swing, swinging

n. changing location by moving back and forth

insult, affront

n. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

lacerate, cut irregularly, tear irregularly

v. cut or tear irregularly

pull, rip, rive, rend

v. tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

break, bust, cause to break

v. ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"

section, segment

v. divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"

share, apportion, portion out, divvy up

v. give out as one's portion or share

shred, tear up, rip up

v. tear into shreds

punch, perforate

v. make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation; "perforate the sheets of paper"

cross, intersect

v. meet at a point

puncture, make a hole into

v. pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into; "puncture a tire"

pull, rip, rive, rend

v. tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

break, bust, cause to break

v. ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"

traverse, track, cross, cover, get over, cut through, get across, pass over, cut across

v. travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

stab, knife

v. use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"

mark, score, nock

v. make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it"

score, write a score for

v. write a musical score for

emend, make corrections to, make improvements to

v. make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"

polish, refine, fine down, make elegant

v. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

polish, gloss, burnish

v. give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off, wipe out

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

cancel, delete

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

wipe, obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

stab, knife

v. use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"

lance

v. open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil"

cut through, pierce

v. cut or make a way through; "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"

thin, make thinner, make thin

v. make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"

lower, lour, make quieter, turn down

v. make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio"

diminish, belittle

v. lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues"

pare, decrease gradually, pare down

v. decrease gradually or bit by bit

shave, knock off

v. cut the price of

cut, contract, reduce, shorten, abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten

v. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

encapsulate, condense

v. make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"

clip, snip, trim, crop, dress, prune, cut back, lop

v. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

shear

v. cut with shears; "shear hedges"

shave, trim, cut closely

v. cut closely

disregard, neglect, slight, ignore, cold-shoulder

v. have no respect for

discount, disregard, ignore, brush off, dismiss, brush aside, push aside

v. bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

slur, blur, dim, become indistinct, become vague

v. become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"

bar, exclude, debar

v. prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club"

cut, contract, reduce, shorten, abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten

v. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

cleanse, denazify, free from Nazi ideology

v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"

free, justify, absolve

v. let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"

strike, excise, expunge

v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

purge, rid of impurities

v. rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"

sublimate, distill, purify, make pure, remove impurities from

v. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"

take, remove, take away

v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

extend, widen, broaden

v. extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard"

stretch

v. extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly; "Stretch the limits"; "stretch my patience"; "stretch the imagination"

Synonyms (89)

cut to

v. move to another scene when filming; "The camera cut to the sky"

cut off, break up, interrupt, disrupt

v. make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

dig, turn over, delve, cut into

v. turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"

cut out, scratch out

v. strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list"

cut through, pierce

v. cut or make a way through; "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"

curb, restrict, curtail, cut back

v. place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"

cut, trim, reduce, cut back, cut down on, cut down, trim down, trim back, make a reduction in, bring down

v. cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

cut out

v. delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article"

condensed

adj. "a condensed book"

half-length

adj. abridged to half its original length

attenuate, faded, weakened, attenuated

adj. reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"

attenuated

adj. of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion

small, diminished, belittled

adj. made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"

diminished, lessened

adj. (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval; "a diminished fifth"

minimized

adj. reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree

remittent

adj. (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity; "a remittent fever"

watery, weak

adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

scraped, abraded, skinned

adj. having skin of a specified kind

scarred, battle-scarred

adj. scarred by battle

bit, bitten, stung

adj. aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"

livid, black-and-blue

adj. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"

bruised, contused, contusioned

adj. injured without breaking the skin; "a cut forehead and bruised cheek"

hurt, wounded, bruised

adj. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"

burned

adj. injured by intense heat (as of fire or the sun); "his cracked, black burned lips"

disabled, hors de combat, out of action

adj. so badly injured as to be excused from continuing; "disabled veterans"

disjointed, separated, dislocated

adj. separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"

harmed

adj. having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted

hurt, wounded

adj. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"

torn, mangled, lacerated

adj. having edges that are jagged from injury

maimed, mutilated

adj. badly injured, perhaps with amputation; "the maimed right hand twisted and clutched"- P.B.Kyne; "mutilated victims of the rocket attack"

agamic, agamous, agamogenetic, parthenogenetic

adj. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction

altered, castrated, neutered, unsexed

adj. deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes

neuter, sexless

adj. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

sexless, spayed

adj. of a female animal: having the ovaries removed

vegetal, vegetative

adj. (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes

Antonyms (20)

increase, step-up

n. the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary"

include, admit, let in, let participate

v. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"

strengthen, fortify, beef up

v. make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"

uncut

adj. not cut

uncut

adj. (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge; "a book with its leaves still uncut"

rough, uncut

adj. not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"

uncut, unmown

adj. (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine; "uncut grass"; "an unmown lawn"

uncut, untrimmed

adj. not trimmed; "shaggy untrimmed locks"

uncut, unsheared, unshorn

adj. not sheared; "a grizzly unshorn beard"; "unshorn sheep"

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