cut
/kʌt/ verb A1- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. · Would you please cut the cake?
- To form or shape by cutting. · I have three diamonds to cut today.
- To wound with a knife.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin. · The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce. · Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
- To castrate or geld. · to cut a horse
He/she/it cuts · Past cut · Past participle cut · -ing form cutting
Verb forms
- Base form
- cut
- He/she/it
- cuts
- Past
- cut
- Past participle
- cut
- -ing form
- cutting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- cut across To take a shortcut over or through (a place).
- cut along To depart for another place; make a move; set off.
- cut away To fail to show something; to stop before showing somethi...
- cut back To reduce the amount of (something).
- cut down To cut downward.
- cut in To intrude or interrupt.
- cut into Synonym of cut in (to include)
- cut off To remove by cutting.
- cut on To turn on (e.g. a light, a television, etc.).
- cut out Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, o...
- cut through To take a shortcut through.
- cut up To cut upward.
From the library
So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast’s head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces.
He assembled a good many Foxes and publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they would not only look much better without them, but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great inconvenience.
The old man was attired in a suit of glistening watered silk, trimmed with steel buttons, beautifully cut and polished.
But, you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world.
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