Word Meanings - CUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

cutten, kitten, ketten; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. cwtau to shorten, curtail, dock, cwta bobtailed, cwt tail, skirt, Gael. cutaich to shorten, curtail, dock, cutach short, docked, cut a 1. To sparate the parts of with, or as with,

Additional info about word: CUT

cutten, kitten, ketten; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. cwtau to shorten, curtail, dock, cwta bobtailed, cwt tail, skirt, Gael. cutaich to shorten, curtail, dock, cutach short, docked, cut a 1. To sparate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide. You must cut this flesh from off his breast. Shak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope. 2. To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap. Thy servants can skill to cut timer. 2. Chron. ii. 8 3. To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails. 4. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse. 5. To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out. Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton. 6. To wound or hurt deeply the snsibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick. The man was cut to the heart. Addison. 7. To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles. 8. To refuse to recognize; to ignorre; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance. 9. To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc. An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity. Thomas Hamilton. To cut a caper. See under Caper. -- To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change the cards to be dealt. -- To cut a dash or a figure, to make a display. -- To cut down. To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. "Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia." Knolles. To put down; to abash; to humble, "So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator." Addison To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a sloop. -- To cut the knot or the Gordian knot, to dispose of a difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary action, rather than by skill or patience. -- To cut lots, to determine lots by cuttings cards; to draw lots. -- To cut off. To sever; to separate. I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my brother's. Shak. To put an untimely death; to put an end to; to destroy. "Irencut off by martyrdom." Addison. To interrupt; as, to cut off communication; to cut off steam from a steam engine. To intercept; as,, to cut off an enemy's retreat. To end; to finish; as, to cut off further debate. -- To cut out. To remove by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board. To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment. " A large forest cut out into walks." Addison. To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out work for another day. "Every man had cut out a place for himself." Addison. To step in and take the place of; to supplant; as, to cut out a rival. To debar. "I am cut out from anything but common acknowledgments." Pope. To seize and carry off from a harbor, or from under the guns of an enemy. -- To cut to pieces. To cut into pieces; as, to cut cloth to pieces. To slaughter; as, to cut an army to pieces. -- To cut a play , to shorten it by leaving out passages, to adapt it for the stage. -- To cut rates , to reduce the charges for transportation below the rates established between competing lines. -- To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a sudden termination. "Achilles cut him short, and thus replied." Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. -- To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. -- To have cut one's eyeteeth, to be sharp and knowing. -- To cut one's wisdom teeth, to come to years of discretion. -- To cut under, to undersell; as, to cut under a competitor in trade. -- To cut up. To cut to pieces; as, to cut up an animal, or bushes. To damage or destroy; to injure; to wound; as, to cut up a book or its author by severe criticism. "This doctrine cuts up all government by the roots." Locke. To afflict; to discourage; to demoralize; as, the death of his friend cut him up terribly. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUT)

• Fell
• Cut
• level
• prostrate
• demolish
• subvert
• waste
• bare
• Hew
• hack
• chop
• fall
• Scarify
• scratch
• incise
• Irritate
• torment
• Turn
• Revolution
• rotation
• recurrence
• change
• alteration
• vicissitude
• winding
• bend
• deflection
• curve
• alternation
• opportunity
• occasion
• time
• deed
• office
• act
• treatment
• purpose
• requirement
• convenience
• talent
• gift
• tendency
• character
• exigence
• crisis
• form
• cast
• shape
• manner
• mold
• fashion
• cut
• Wound
• Rend
• hurt
• injure
• harm
• damage
• pain
• mortify
• annoy
• gall
• irritate
• lacerate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CUT)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• ROUGHEN
  To grow or become rough.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• PROSTRATE
  1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn. 2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government;
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
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  See SCOTT
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  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
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  See POST
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.