cut up
verbe- To cut upward.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections. · With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting. · The attackers cut him up pretty bad.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism. · The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc. · We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class.
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- To divide into portions well or badly; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc.
Dans la bibliothèque
The Barrys must feel cut up.
He’ll be cut up over this, for the man has been in his service for years and was a good servant.
Danglars took the knife in one hand and the fork in the other, and was about to cut up the fowl.
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