cut out
verboEn español: dejar de, dejar, quitar, omitir
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To sever from something larger, with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument. · Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something). · He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon.· She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out.
- To remove; to omit. · If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits.
- To oust; to replace.
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected. · It was around then that the engine suddenly cut out.· Can you say that again? You keep cutting out.
- To leave suddenly. · He must have cut out of the party.
- To arrange or prepare. · He has his work cut out for him.
- To intercept.
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I want that pattern to cut out your new apron this evening.
“If any possible doubt remained it is settled by the fact that ‘keep away’ and ‘from the’ are cut out in one piece.”
Holmes,” said Sir Henry Baskerville, “someone cut out this message with a scissors—”
Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of short-bladed scissors, pasted it with paste—”
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