All chining synonyms
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C c verb chining
- shave β to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- slice β a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
- rip β to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- slash β to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- carve β If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
- curtail β If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
- divide β to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- clip β A clip is a small device, usually made of metal or plastic, that is specially shaped for holding things together.
- slay β to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
- chip β Chips are long, thin pieces of potato fried in oil or fat and eaten hot, usually with a meal.
- crop β Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.
- snip β to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
- slit β to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
- sliver β a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- hack β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- guillotine β a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
- saw β a sententious saying; maxim; proverb: He could muster an old saw for every occasion.
- hew β to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- decussate β to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
- nick β Old Nick.
- lop β to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.
- score β the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- intersect β to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
- behead β If someone is beheaded, their head is cut off, usually because they have been found guilty of a crime.
- perforate β to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like.
- shear β to cut (something).
- dissever β to sever; separate.
- gash β a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
- massacre β the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- hash β hashish.
- saber β a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
- lacerate β to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- mow β Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.
- slaughter β Frank, 1908β2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- fell β simple past tense of fall.
- amputate β To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
- reap β to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- pierce β to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
- prune β a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- bisect β If something long and thin bisects an area or line, it divides the area or line in half.
- dissect β to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
- chisel β A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone.
- facet β one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- notch β an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- raze β to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- rive β to tear or rend apart: to rive meat from a bone.
- skive β to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.
- rend β to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
- mince β to cut or chop into very small pieces.
- dice β A dice is a small cube which has between one and six spots or numbers on its sides, and which is used in games to provide random numbers. In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.