| means | (verb) cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
lop, discerp, sever |
| means | (verb) cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat"
chop up, chop |
| means | (verb) cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass"
mow, cut down |
| means | (verb) cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication; "indent the documents"
indent |
| means | (verb) form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice"
carve |
| means | (verb) cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"
carve, cut up |
| means | (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
cut down, slash |
| means | (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"
bore, drill |
| means | (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
nip, snip, clip, nip off, snip off |
| means | (verb) cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
undercut |
| means | (verb) cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
slash, gash |
| means | (verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"
carve, chip at |
| means | (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"
cut |
| means | (verb) cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb"
shear |
| means | (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"
pare, trim |
| means | (verb) break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
break off, knap, chip, cut off |
| means | (verb) cut with a hacking tool
chop, hack |
| means | (verb) make a clean cut through; "slit her throat"
slice, slit |
| means | (verb) cut into slices; "Slice the salami, please"
slice, slice up |
| means | (verb) create a short circuit in
short-circuit, short |
| means | (verb) set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
break up, sever |
| means | (verb) make a division or separation
divide, separate |
| means | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
trim, crop, dress, lop, clip, snip, prune, cut back |
| means | (verb) make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"
hew, hew out |
| means | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!"
compartmentalize, compartmentalise, cut up |
| means | (verb) form or shape by chopping; "chop a hole in the ground"
chop |
| means | (verb) cut with shears; "shear hedges"
shear |
| means | (verb) form and create by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper"
cut out |
| means | (verb) make a hole into; "The needle pierced her flesh"
pierce |
| means | (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
truncate, cut short |
| means | (verb) come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
divide, part, separate |