Thesaurus:cut
English
Verb
Sense: to perform an incision, as by a knife
Synonyms
Hyponyms
To cut off:
To cut the top off:
To cut into:
To cut an indentation into:
To cut into pieces:
- becarve (obsolete)
- bisect [⇒ thesaurus]
- calver (obsolete)
- cantle (obsolete)
- carve
- carve up
- chop
- chop up
- collop
- cube
- dice
- discide (obsolete)
- flitch
- forcut (archaic)
- layer
- mince
- presection
- rasher
- section
- shred
- slice
- slit
- sliver
- tocut (obsolete)
- tranch (obsolete)
- trisect
By cutting implement:
- chainsaw
- clip
- drawknife
- knife
- guillotine
- grate
- microtome
- reap
- scissor
- scythe
- shear
- sickle
- slash
- ultramicrotome
By thing being cut:
To cut grass or crops:
To cut hair:
To short:
Other:
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Further reading
- “44. disjunction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “cut” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.