cut down
verb- To cut downward.
- To adulterate a drug. · We need to cut the cocaine down.
- To bring down by cutting. · They want to cut down several trees to make room for the parking lot.
- To insult, to belittle.
- To reduce the amount of something. · He wants to cut down on extra steps.· Please don't put the candy jar right next to my desk. I'm trying to cut down on sugar.
- To slay, often in great numbers. · I will cut you down where you stand.
- To shoot a gun; to shoot (someone or many people), usually to kill them.
- To challenge (someone); to prove superiority to (someone).
From the library
THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.
The grasshoppers and sparrows entreated him not to cut down the tree that sheltered them, but to spare it, and they would sing to him and lighten his labours.
Bell having ruthlessly cut down the little circle of trees in his back pasture in the spring.
“‘There used to be a very old one over yonder but it was struck by lightning ten years ago, and we cut down the stump.’
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