cut

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /kʌt/
• SAMPA: /"kVt/

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Verb

Plain form cut

Third-person singular cuts

Past tense cut

Past participle cut

Present participle cutting

Some cut food

1. If you make something shorter or divide it in pieces, you cut it.
   • Synonyms: shorten, cut up, cut off, divide, slice and clip
   • Antonyms: lengthen, unite and paste together

   Jared cut the meat using his knife and fork.

   In the lumber mill, the logs are then cut into boards.

2. To hurt with a blade.
   • Synonyms: slash, hack, incise, scratch, score, sever, slice, chop and nick
   • Antonyms: heal and bandage

   I cut my hand.

3. To stop something.
   • Synonyms: stop, cut off and turn off
   • Antonyms: turn on, start and start up

   They cut the electricity.

4. To edit, shorten, or censor (a film).
   • Synonyms: edit, shorten and censor
   • Antonym: lengthen

   The film was cut by ten minutes.

5. (computers) If you remove something to put it somewhere else, you cut it.
   • Antonym: paste

   Ben cut the text from the Word document and pasted it into another.

6. (film) If the picture changes from one scene to another, the scene cuts to another.

Related words and phrases

• box cutter
• chop
• clip
• cutter
• cutting
• cut a rug
• cut back
• cut down
• cut in
• cut loose
• cut off
• cut out
• cut through
• cut up
• cut-up
• haircut
• injure
• paper cut
• slice
• undercut

See also

• incision
• knife
• sword
• scissors
• Cutlass

Noun

Singular cut

Plural cuts

1. (countable) A scratch, opening in the skin or a surface.
   • Synonyms: scratch, slice, slash, graze, incision and nick

   She had a cut on her arm.

2. (countable) A reduction; lessening.
   • Synonyms: reduction, lessening, decrease, cutback, decline and drop
   • Antonyms: hike, increase, augment, augmentation, boost, growth, proliferation, spread, expansion and multiplication

   There was a cut in prices.

3. (countable) A small piece removed by cutting is a cut.

   I will take a cut of beef.