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All chining synonyms

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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, 1908–2001, 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.
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