1. Separate with or as if with an instrument
   "Cut the rope"
    
2. Make a reduction in, cut down on
   "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"; "cut down your daily fat intake";
   - reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, bring down
    
3. Make an incision or separation
   "cut along the dotted line"
    
4. Function as a cutting instrument
   "This knife cuts well"
    
5. Form or shape by cutting or incising
   "cut paper dolls"
    
6. Fell by sawing; hew
   "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia"
    
7. Shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
   "cut my hair"
    
8. Penetrate injuriously
   "The glass from the shattered windscreen cut into her forehead"
    
9. Remove unnecessary or unwanted parts to improve efficiency or effectiveness
   "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet";
   - prune, rationalize, rationalise [Brit]
    
10. Discharge from a group
    "The coach cut two players from the team"
     
11. Intentionally fail to attend
    "cut class";
    - skip
     
12. Pass through or across
    "The boat cut the water"
     
13. Pass directly and often in haste
    "We cut through the neighbour's yard to get home sooner"
     
14. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
    "The car cut to the left at the intersection";
    - swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew
     
15. Style or make in a certain fashion
    "cut a dress";
    - tailor
     
16. (sport) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
    "cut a Ping-Pong ball"
     
17. Make an abrupt change of image or sound
    "cut from one scene to another"
     
18. Stop filming
    "cut a movie scene"
     
19. Make a recording of
    "cut the songs"; "She cut all of her major titles again"
     
20. Record a performance on (a medium)
    "cut a record"
     
21. Create by duplicating data
    "cut a disk";
    - burn
     
22. Perform or carry out
    "cut a caper"
     
23. Allow incision or separation
    "This bread cuts easily"
     
24. Divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
    "Wayne cut"; "She cut the deck for a long time"
     
25. Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
    "cut the engine";
    - switch off, turn off, turn out
     
26. Reap or harvest
    "cut grain"
     
27. Refuse to acknowledge
    "She cut him dead at the meeting";
    - ignore, disregard, snub
     
28. Dissolve by breaking down the fat of
    "soap cuts grease"
     
29. Have a reducing effect
    "This cuts into my earnings"
     
30. Cease, stop
    "We had to cut short the conversation"; "cut the noise";
    - cut off
     
31. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
    "The manuscript must be cut";
    - abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, contract, reduce
     
32. Lessen the strength or flavour of a solution or mixture
    "cut bourbon";
    - dilute, thin, thin out
     
33. Have grow through the gums
    "The baby cut a tooth"
     
34. Grow through the gums
    "The new tooth is cutting"
     
35. Remove the testicles of (a male animal)
    "The farmer cut the young bulls";
    - geld
     
36. [informal] Be able to manage or manage successfully
    "she could not cut the long days in the office";
    - hack [informal]
     
37. Give the appearance or impression of
    "cut a nice figure"
     
38. (boxing) move (one's fist)
    "his opponent cut upward toward his chin"
     
39. Fill in and give as payment
    "cut a ticket";
    - write out, issue, make out
     
40. Separate and assemble the components of
    "cut recording tape";
    - edit, edit out
     
41. Form by probing, penetrating, or digging
    "The sweat cut little rivulets into her face"; "cut a hole"; "cut trenches"

1. The act of penetrating or opening with a sharp edge
   "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels";
   - cutting
    
2. The act of cutting something into parts
   "his cuts were skilful";
   - cutting
    
3. A piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
   "The butcher recommended several cuts of meat for the stew";
   - cut of meat
    
4. The act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
   "the barber gave him a good cut";
   - cutting
    
5. The act of reducing the amount or number
   "the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget"
    
6. A wound made by cutting
   "he put a bandage over the cut";
   - gash, slash, slice
    
7. The style in which a garment is cut
   "a dress of traditional cut"
    
8. (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
   "the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt"
    
9. A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
   "he played the first cut on the cd";
   - track
    
10. In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
    "he took a vicious cut at the ball";
    - baseball swing, swing
     
11. (sport) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
    "cuts do not bother a good tennis player";
    - undercut
     
12. The division of a deck of cards before dealing
    "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal";
    - cutting
     
13. A remark capable of wounding mentally
    "the unkindest cut of all";
    - stinger, burn [informal]
     
14. The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
    "an editor's cuts frequently upset young authors";
    - deletion, excision
     
15. A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
    "The flood left a deep cut in the hillside";
    - gash
     
16. A canal made by erosion or excavation
    "The river had carved a deep cut through the rock over millennia"
     
17. A share of the profits
    "everyone got a cut of the earnings"
     
18. A step on some scale
    "he is a cut above the rest"
     
19. A refusal to recognize someone you know
    "the cut was clearly intentional";
    - snub, cold shoulder
     
20. An unexcused absence from class
    "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his maths class"

1. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
   "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists"; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"
    
2. Fashioned or shaped by cutting
   "cut velvet"; "a well-cut suit"; "cut diamonds"
    
3. With parts removed
   "the drastically cut film";
   - shortened
    
4. Made neat and tidy by trimming
   "his neatly cut hair";
   - trimmed
    
5. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
   "the smell of newly cut hay";
   - mown
    
6. (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
   "the cut pages of the book"
    
7. (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
   "a cut horse";
   - emasculated, gelded
    
8. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
   "the cut prices attracted buyers";
   - slashed
    
9. Mixed with water
   "sold cut whiskey";
   - thinned

Derived forms: cuts, cut, cutting

See also: abridged, castrated, chopped, clipped, curb, cut away, cut off, cut out, cut to, cut up, decreased, dig, dilute, diluted, disrupt, hand-hewn, hewn, incised, new-mown, perforate, perforated, pierced, punctured, reduced, scratch out, severed, sheared, shredded, slashed, sliced, split, unsexed

Type of: absence, abuse, acquire, alter, appear, be, break up, canal, castrate, change, contumely [archaic], create, cut down, cut off, decrease, demasculinise [Brit], demasculinize, design, develop, diminution, discharge, disrupt, dissolve, disunite, divide, division, do, do away with, do by [Brit], drop, editing, eliminate, emasculate [archaic], evirate [rare], excerpt, excerption, execute, extinguish, extract, fashion, fell, flip, free, function, furrow, get, get by, get rid of, glean [archaic], go, gradation, grow, handle, harvest, hit, insult, interrupt, lesion, lessen, look, make, make do, manage, meat, minify, miss, mix, modify, move, move through, opening, operate, part, pass, pass across, pass over, pass through, penetrate, percentage, perform, pierce, portion, produce, reap, rebuff, record, redaction, reduction, resolve, revilement, ruffle, run, seem, selection, separate, share, shift, shorten, shortening, shot, shuffle, slight, step, step-down, stop, strike down, stroke, switch, tape, throw, transit, transition, treat, turn, vilification, weaken, work, wound, write

Antonym: rough, switch on, uncut

Part of: booty, card game, cards, dirty money [informal], loot, pillage, plunder, prize, swag [informal]

Encyclopedia: Cut, copy, & paste