All cut synonyms
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- insult β to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- laceration β the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
- wound β the act of winding.
- saving β tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- reduction β the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- decrease β When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- cutback β A cutback is a reduction that is made in something.
- quota β the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
- trim β to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.: to trim a hedge.
- shave β to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- chip β Chips are long, thin pieces of potato fried in oil or fat and eaten hot, usually with a meal.
- rip β to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- 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.
- rent β an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.
- passage β a slow, cadenced trot executed with great elevation of the feet and characterized by a moment of suspension before the feet strike the ground.
- slot β a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
- trench β Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ΛΚΙn Ι vi/ (Show IPA), 1807β86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- fissure β a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.
- section β a part that is cut off or separated.
- mark β Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837β1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897β1904.
- nick β Old Nick.
- slash β to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- cleft β A cleft in a rock or in the ground is a narrow opening in it.
- gash β a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
- prick β a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- opening β an open or clear space.
- dissection β the act of dissecting.
- graze β to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing: to graze against a rough wall.
- stab β to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- nip β to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- intersection β a place where two or more roads meet, especially when at least one is a major highway; junction.
- furrow β a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- pierce β to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
- sculpture β the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
- stroke β a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
- chop β If you chop something, you cut it into pieces with strong downward movements of a knife or an axe.
- cleavage β A woman's cleavage is the space between her breasts, especially the top part which you see if she is wearing a dress with a low neck.
- penetration β the act or power of penetrating.
- notch β an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- groove β a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- carving β A carving is an object or a design that has been cut out of a material such as stone or wood.
- rabbet β a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- lowering β comparative of low1 .
- downsize β company: make redundancies
- fall β to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
- decrement β the act of decreasing; diminution
verb cut
- 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.