All lay open synonyms

verb lay open

• perforate — to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like.
• shear — to cut (something).
• dissever — to sever; separate.
• gash — a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
• massacre — 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 — hashish.
• saber — a heavy, one-edged sword, usually slightly curved, used especially by cavalry.
• lacerate — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
• mow — Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• fell — simple past tense of fall.
• amputate — 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 — to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
• pierce — to penetrate into or run through (something), as a sharp, pointed dagger, object, or instrument does.
• prune — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
• bisect — If something long and thin bisects an area or line, it divides the area or line in half.
• dissect — to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
• chisel — 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 — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
• notch — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
• raze — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
• rive — to tear or rend apart: to rive meat from a bone.
• skive — to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.
• rend — to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.
• mince — to cut or chop into very small pieces.
• dice — 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.
• bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
• flitch — the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
• sickle — an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
• chine — the backbone
• scythe — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
• dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
• puncture — the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object.
• penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
• scarify — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
• quarter — crumb
• level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
• scissor — to cut or clip out with scissors.
• rabbet — 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.
• part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• anatomize — If you anatomise a subject or an issue, you examine it in great detail.
• section — a part that is cut off or separated.
• disjoin — to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.
• dismember — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• sunder — to separate; part; divide; sever.
• disjoint — to separate or disconnect the joints or joinings of.
• operate — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.