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Definitions of cut:

noun: an unexcused absence from class
Example: "He was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class"
noun: the act of reducing the amount or number
Example: "The mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget"
noun: the act of shortening something by cutting off the ends
Example: "The barber gave him a good cut"
noun: the act of cutting something into parts
Example: "His cuts were skillful"
noun: the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
Example: "His cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels"
noun: the division of a deck of cards before dealing
Example: "He insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"
noun: (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
Example: "Cuts do not bother a good tennis player"
noun: a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
noun: a canal made by erosion or excavation
noun: the style in which a garment is cut
Example: "A dress of traditional cut"
noun: a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
Example: "He played the first cut on the cd"
noun: (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
Example: "The cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt"
noun: a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
noun: a share of the profits
Example: "Everyone got a cut of the earnings"
noun: a wound made by cutting
Example: "He put a bandage over the cut"
noun: a step on some scale
Example: "He is a cut above the the rest"
noun: a refusal to recognize someone you know
noun: a remark capable of wounding mentally
Example: "The unkindest cut of all"
noun: in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
Example: "He took a vicious cut at the ball"
noun: the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
verb: move (one's fist)
Example: "His opponent cut upward toward his chin"
verb: give the appearance or impression of
Example: "Cut a nice figure"
verb: discharge from a group
Example: "The coach cut two players from the team"
verb: intentionally fail to attend
Example: "Cut class"
verb: cease, stop
Example: "Cut the noise"
verb: have a reducing effect
Example: "This cuts into my earnings"
verb: dissolve by breaking down the fat of
Example: "Soap cuts grease"
verb: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
Example: "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
verb: shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
Example: "Cut my hair"
verb: grow through the gums
Example: "The new tooth is cutting"
verb: have grow through the gums
Example: "The baby cut a tooth"
verb: penetrate injuriously
Example: "The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead"
verb: fell by sawing; hew
Example: "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia"
verb: reap or harvest
Example: "Cut grain"
verb: hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
Example: "Cut a pingpong ball"
verb: separate with or as if with an instrument
Example: "Cut the rope"
verb: divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
Example: "Wayne cut"
verb: make an incision or separation
Example: "Cut along the dotted line"
verb: allow incision or separation
Example: "This bread cuts easily"
verb: function as a cutting instrument
Example: "This knife cuts well"
verb: style and tailor in a certain fashion
Example: "Cut a dress"
verb: perform or carry out
Example: "Cut a caper"
verb: form or shape by cutting or incising
Example: "Cut paper dolls"
verb: form by probing, penetrating, or digging
Example: "Cut a hole"
verb: create by duplicating data
Example: "Cut a disk"
verb: record a performance on (a medium)
Example: "Cut a record"
verb: make a recording of
Example: "Cut the songs"
verb: stop filming
Example: "Cut a movie scene"
verb: make an abrupt change of image or sound
Example: "Cut from one scene to another"
verb: pass through or across
Example: "The boat cut the water"
verb: pass directly and often in haste
Example: "We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner"
verb: informal: be able to manage or manage successfully
Example: "She could not cut the long days in the office"
verb: cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
verb: cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
Example: "Cut the engine"
verb: cut and assemble the components of
Example: "Cut recording tape"
verb: refuse to acknowledge
Example: "She cut him dead at the meeting"
verb: make out and issue
Example: "Cut a ticket"
verb: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Example: "Cut bourbon"
verb: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
verb: cut down on; make a reduction in
Example: "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
verb: turn sharply; change direction abruptly
Example: "The car cut to the left at the intersection"
adjective: wounded by cutting deeply
adjective: having a long rip or tear
adjective: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
Example: "A cut horse"
adjective: with parts removed
Example: "The drastically cut film"
adjective: separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
Example: "The cut surface was mottled"
adjective: (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
Example: "The cut pages of the book"
adjective: fashioned or shaped by cutting
Example: "A well-cut suit"
adjective: mixed with water
Example: "Sold cut whiskey"
adjective: (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
adjective: cut down
adjective: (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
adjective: made neat and tidy by trimming

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cut: (632 results)
Synonyms:
abbreviate, abridge, abridged, baseball swing, bring down, castrated, chopped, clipped, cold shoulder, contract, crosscut, curve, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut of meat, cut out, cutting, cutting off, cut up, decreased, deletion, dilute, diluted, disregard, down, downed, edit, edit out, emasculated, felled, foreshorten, gash, gashed, gelded, hack, hand-hewn, hewn, ignore, incised, injured, issue, make out, mown, perforate, perforated, pierced, prune, punctured, rationalize, reduce, reduced, severed, sheared, sheer, shorten, shortened, shredded, skip, slash, slashed, slew, slice, sliced, slit, slitted, slue, snub, split, stinger, style, swerve, swing, switch off, tailor, thin, thinned, thin out, trend, trim, trim back, trim down, trimmed, turn off, turn out, unsexed, veer, weakened, write out

Part of:
booty, card game, cards, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, swag

More general:
absence, abuse, acquire, appear, break up, canal, contend, contumely, cope, create, deal, decrease, design, develop, diminution, discharge, disrupt, dissolve, disunite, divide, division, do, do away with, do by, drop, editing, eliminate, execute, fashion, fell, flip, free, function, furrow, get, get by, get rid of, glean, go, gradation, grapple, grow, handle, harvest, hit, insult, interrupt, lesion, lessen, look, make, make do, manage, meat, minify, miss, mix, move, opening, operate, part, pass across, pass over, pass through, penetrate, percentage, perform, portion, produce, reap, rebuff, redaction, reduction, revilement, ruffle, run, seem, separate, share, shortening, shot, shuffle, slight, step, step-down, stop, strike down, stroke, switch, throw, transit, transition, treat, turn, weaken, work, wound, write

More specific:
amputate, bevel, bisect, bob, bore, bowdlerise, bowdlerize, break off, brisket, budget cut, butcher, carve, chamfer, chase, chatter, check, chine, chip at, chip, chop, chop up, circumcise, cleave, clip, clipping, concentrate, condense, cost cutting, cradle, crop, cube, cut across, cut a rebate in, cut away, cut of beef, cut of lamb, cut of mutton, cut of pork, cut of veal, cut short, deflate, detract, dice, dissect, dissection, dock, drill, expurgate, forequarter, gore, haircut, hindquarter, hob, incise, incision, indent, inflate, jag, joint, jump cut, knap, knock off, leg, loin, lop, manicure, mortice, mortise, mow, neck, nick, nip, nip off, notch, pare, pay cut, peel off, pierce, pink, plane, price cut, price cutting, rack, rake-off, rebate, retrench, rib, rip, roast, saber, sabre, saddle, saw, scission, scissor, section, severance, sever, severing, shank, shave, shear, shearing, shin, side, side of meat, sirloin, slashing, slaughter, slice up, slicing, snick, snip, snip off, steak, tail, take away, tap, tenderloin, tomahawk, trench, trimming, trisect, undercut, water down, whittle, yaw

Antonyms:
rough, switch on, turn on, unmown, untrimmed

Often used in the same context:
cuts, blade, contempt, cup, ill, knife, sharp, bug, mut, pot, shortcut, tooth, ut

Appears in the definition of:
abbreviated, adz, adze, aitchbone, alpine lady fern, approximation, astilbe chinensis pumila, athyrium distentifolium, atlanta, atomic number 82, bang, barber, barbershop, barndoor, battle of atlanta, beech fern, beef neck, beef roast, behead, beheaded, belt, biltong, bite, blade roast, blank out, bog, bottom round, bread knife, break away, breast of lamb, bringing close together, bunk, burl, burr drill, burr-headed, bushwhack, cabochon, candlewick, carbuncle, cat's eye, celery stick, chateaubriand, cheroot, chewable, chincherinchee, chiseled, chop down, chopping block, chopping board, close-cropped, coalface, cold chisel, convex polygon, cord, corduroy, cordwood, corypha umbraculifera, counterattack, countermove, crisp, cropped, crudites, curtailment, curtal, cutaway, cutout, cuttable, cutting board, cutwork, dado, daucus carota, deaden, decapitate, decapitated, decolletage, decollete, dense blazing star, dentist's drill, dermatome, diamond, die, die out, diestock, disconnected, dismemberment, ditch, divot, docked, dress, dwarf astilbe, emerald, engraved, etched, eton jacket, facet, fairway, filet, filet mignon, fillet, flank, flank steak, flitch, foreshank, fresh-cut, fruit bar, frustum, geld, gem, gemstone, genus lactarius, genus leonurus, gingerbread man, girdle, gordian knot, grass, graven, grog, groove, grooved, gully, gutter, hardwood, hew, hindshank, inscribed, isolated, jerked meat, jerky, jigsaw puzzle, knifelike, lacerate, laconic, lactarius, lagoon, laguna, lagune, lam, lambchop, lamb roast, lead, leonurus, letter opener, letter paper, liatris pycnostachya, log, lopped, lopped off, love-in-a-mist, low-cut, low-necked, lumber, machine shop, marbling, marooned, matchboard, melon ball, mince, mutton chop, newspaper clipping, nigella damascena, notepaper, nut bar, openside plane, ornithogalum thyrsoides, oxbow lake, paperknife, paring, parings, parsley, pastrami, pb, peat bog, penknife, petroselinum crispum, piece, pinch, pinion, pipe clamp, pipe vise, pitsaw, plough, plow, poitrine d'agneau, pollard, porkchop, pork roast, pot roast, press, press clipping, press cutting, price competition, price war, pruned, pump, pumps, queen anne's lace, rabbet, rabbet plane, rawhide, resolution, resolving, rib roast, rive, roast beef, roast lamb, roast pork, roast veal, rolled biscuit, round, round steak, ruby, rump roast, rump steak, run away, sapphire, sawed-off, scallop, scarper, scollop, scone, scrape, scratch, scratch awl, scratch up, scriber, scrub plane, sculpted, sculptured, scythe, sectional, seize with teeth, set chisel, shaved, shaven, shorn, shoulder, sirloin steak, sirloin tip, skid road, soap flakes, softwood, sparerib, spareribs, staccato, standing, standing rib roast, star sapphire, stationery, stone, stormbound, stranded, strangulation, sunburst pleat, sunray pleat, swage block, swath, sword-cut, taking apart, talipot, talipot palm, tanbark, teethe, tender, terse, thrust, timber, top, top round, tough, tournedos, trepan, truncate, truncated, tucker, turn tail, unclipped, undocked, unfelled, veal roast, vienna sausage, vivisect, wear away, well-defined, whittle away, whittle down, wild carrot, wilton, wonder flower, wood block, woodcut, wood engraving, zoot suit

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