A share of the profits.

Roget 70: discontinuity; disjunction etc. 44; anacoluthon^†; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap etc. (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation etc. (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.    ... show more

Roget 240: form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour etc. (outline) 230; structure etc. 329; plasmature^†.    feature, lineament, turn; phase etc. (aspect) 448; posture, attitude, pose.    [Science of form] morphism.    [Similarity of form] isomorphism.    forming etc. v.; formation, figuration, efformation^†; sculpture; plasmation^†.    ... show more

Roget 257: notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple.    embrasure, battlement, machicolation^†; saw, tooth, crenelle^†, scallop, scollop^†, vandyke; depression; jag.    ... show more

Roget 276: impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push, pulsion^†, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost [U.S.], throw; explosion etc. (violence) 173; propulsion etc. 284.    percussion, concussion, collision, occursion^†, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole^†, appulse^†, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge etc. (attack) 716; beating etc. (punishment) 972.    blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff etc. 972; squash, dowse, swap, whap^†, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce^†, calcitration^†; ruade^†; arietation^†; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk^†; carom, carrom^†, clip [Slang], jab, plug [Slang], sidewinder [U.S.], sidewipe^†, sideswipe [U.S.].    hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer^†; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel etc. (weapon) 727; ax etc. (sharp) 253.    [Science of mechanical forces] dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector.    ... show more

Roget 716: attack; assault, assault and battery; onset, onslaught, charge.    aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade^†, ruade^†; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade^†, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at.    storm, storming; boarding, escalade^†; siege, investment, obsession^†, bombardment, cannonade.    fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer [Fr.].    cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado^†, carte and tierce [Fr.], home thrust; coupe de bec [Fr.]; kick, punch etc. (impulse) 276.    battue^†, razzia^†, Jacquerie, dragonnade^†; devastation etc. 162; eboulement [Fr.].    assailant, aggressor, invader.    base of operations, point of attack; echelon.    ... show more

Roget 378: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance^†; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering etc. 828; dolour, ache; aching etc. v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris [Lat.]; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia [Med.], earache, gout, ischiagra^†, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia^†, otalgia^†, podagra^†, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux [Fr.], toothache, tormina^†, torticollis^†.    spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes^†; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb etc. (agitation) 315; pang; colic; kink.    sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain.    anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation^†, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection.    ... show more

Roget 558: engraving, chalcography^†; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta^†; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography^†, glyptography^†, cerography^†, lithography, chromolithography^†, photolithography, zincography^†, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph^†, glyptograph^†, cerograph^†, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph^†, glyphograph^†, holograph.    impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint^†; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype^†, autotype^†, heliotype^†.    graver, burin^†, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp.    printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing^†, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing etc. 591; three-color process.    illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe [Fr.], tailpiece.    [person who inscribes on stone] lapidary, lapidarian.    ... show more

Roget 893: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness etc. adj.; delitescence^†; rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness etc. (singleness) 87; isolation; loneliness etc. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.    cell, hermitage; convent etc. 1000; sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].    depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness etc. (unproductive) 169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.    exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.    inhospitality^†, inhospitableness etc. adj.; dissociability^†; domesticity, Darby and Joan.    recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret^†, anchorite; Simon Stylites^†; troglodyte, Timon of Athens^†, Santon^†, solitaire, ruralist^†, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic^†; wastrel, foundling, wilding^†.    ... show more

Polish: działka, dola

film An immediate transition from one shot to the next.

A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation.

synonym: gash.

Roget 198: interval, interspace^†; separation etc. 44; break, gap, opening; hole etc. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure^†, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.    gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith^†, strait, gully; pass; furrow etc. 259; abra^†; barranca^†, barranco^†; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime [Lat.], hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.]; parenthesis etc. (interjacence) 228^†; void etc. (absence) 187; incompleteness etc. 53.    [interval of time] period etc. 108; interim (time) 106.    ... show more

A step on some scale.

A wound made by cutting:
— He put a bandage over the cut.

synonyms: gash, slash, slice.

Roget 204: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess^†; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.    plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive^†, cut, rasher, shaving, integument etc. (covering) 223; eschar^†.    stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.    monolayer; bilayer; trilayer [Bioch.].    ... show more

Dutch: jaap, snede, snee, snijwond
Polish: rana cięta

A piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass.

synonym: cut of meat.

A remark capable of wounding mentally:
— The unkindest cut of all.

synonym: stinger.

A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc:
— He played the first cut on the cd.

synonym: track.

Roget 627: method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise; modus operandi, MO; procedure etc. (line of conduct) 692.    path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack.    steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron^†.    bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway; drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe etc. 260.    door; gateway etc. (opening) 260; channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit^†; artery, lane, loan [Scot.], alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel^†.    roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir^†, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut etc. (mid-course) 628; carrefour^†; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal etc. (conduit) 350; street etc. (abode) 189; speedway.    adv.. how; in what way, in what manner; by what mode; so, in this way, after this fashion.    one way or another, anyhow; somehow or other etc. (instrumentality) 631; by way of; via; in transitu [Lat.] etc. 270; on the high road to.    ... show more

The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage.

synonyms: deletion, excision.

The style in which a garment is cut.

Dutch: coupe, pasvorm, snit
Polish: fason, krój

A canal made by erosion or excavation.

A refusal to recognize someone you know.

synonyms: cold shoulder, snub.

In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball:
— He took a vicious cut at the ball.

synonyms: baseball swing, swing.

sports A stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball:
— Cuts do not bother a good tennis player.

synonym: undercut.

Polish: smecz

The division of a deck of cards before dealing:
— He insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal.
— The cutting of the cards soon became a ritual.

synonym: cutting.

The act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge:
— His cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels.

synonym: cutting.

Polish: rozcięcie

The act of cutting something into parts:
— His cuts were skillful.
— His cutting of the cake made a terrible mess.

synonym: cutting.

The act of shortening something by chopping off the ends:
— The barber gave him a good cut.

synonyms: cutting, cutting off.

Polish: obcinanie

The act of reducing the amount or number.

Dutch: besnoeiing, bestedingsbeperking, bezuiniging, consumptiebeperking, inkrimping
Polish: cięcia

An unexcused absence from class.

Separate with or as if with an instrument.

Roget 253: be sharp etc. adj.; taper to a point; bristle with.    render sharp etc. adj.; sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate^†, set, strop, grind; chip (flint). cut etc. (sunder) 44.    ... show more

Roget 371: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 895: be rude etc. adj.; insult etc. 929; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush.    cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.    lose one's temper etc. (resentment) 900; sulk etc. 901.1; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.    render rude etc. adj.; brutalize, brutify^†.    ... show more

Roget 893: be secluded, live secluded etc. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux [Fr.]; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon etc. 624; sport one's oak [Slang].    cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.    depopulate; dispeople^†, unpeople^†.    ... show more

Roget 257: notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop^†, crenulate^†, vandyke.   

Roget 830: cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain, produce pain, create pain, inflict pain etc. 828; pain, hurt, wound.    pinch, prick, gripe etc. (physical pain) 378; pierce, lancinate^†, cut.    hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, grate upon the nerves, jar upon the feelings; wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart, rend the heart; make the heart bleed; tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings; draw tears from the eyes.    sadden; make unhappy etc. 828; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash^†, afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.    displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze^†, feeze [U.S.]; disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret^†, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.    wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to the question; break on the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate^†, crucify; convulse, agonize; barb the dart; plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side.    irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe^†, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense etc. (resentment) 900.    maltreat, bite, snap at, assail; smite etc. (punish) 972.    sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal^†, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.    haunt the memory; weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits; bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; add a nail to one's coffin.    ... show more

Roget 557: sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; cast [Slang].   

Roget 385: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate^†, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility) 388.1. ... show more

Dutch: snijden

Cut down on; make a reduction in:
— The employer wants to cut back health benefits.

synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down.

Roget 240: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform^†, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build etc. (construct) 161.    ... show more

Dutch: vermindering, korting, besnoeien, minderen, reduceren, terugbrengen, verkleinen, verminderen

Turn sharply; change direction abruptly:
— The car cut to the left at the intersection.

synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer.

Dutch: zwerven, regelen, afzwenken, evolueren, uitzwenken, zwaaien, zwenken

Make an incision or separation.

Discharge from a group.

Form by probing, penetrating, or digging.

Style and tailor in a certain fashion:
— Cut a dress.

synonym: tailor.

Hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction.

Make out and issue:
— Cut a ticket.

synonyms: issue, make out, write out.

Dutch: uitschrijven

Cut and assemble the components of:
— Cut recording tape.

synonyms: edit, edit out.

Intentionally fail to attend:
— Cut class.

synonym: skip.

Be able to manage or manage successfully:
— She could not cut the long days in the office.

synonym: hack.

Roget 44: be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.    disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^†; divorce, part, dispart^†, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock etc. (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free etc. (liberate) 750.    sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind^†; circumcise; cut; incide^†, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c., rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch^†, crunch, craunch^†, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind^†, lacerate, scamble^†, mangle, gash, hash, slice.    cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb^†; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate^†; skin etc. 226; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch^†, disband; disperse etc. 73; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute etc. (pulverize) 330; apportion etc. 786.    part, part company; separate, leave.    ... show more

Give the appearance or impression of.

Move (one's fist).

Pass directly and often in haste.

Pass through or across.

Make an abrupt change of image or sound.

Stop filming.

Make a recording of.

Record a performance on (a medium).

Create by duplicating data:
— Cut a disk.

synonym: burn.

Form or shape by cutting or incising.

Perform or carry out.

Function as a cutting instrument.

Allow incision or separation.

Divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult.

Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch:
— Cut the engine.

synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out.

Roget 297: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern^†, excrete; embogue^†; secrete, secern^†; extravasate [Med.], shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude^†; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt^†, spurt, spill, slop; perspire etc. (exude) 295; breathe, blow etc. (wind) 349.    tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.    eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser [Fr.]; banish etc. (punish) 972; bounce [U.S.]; fire [Slang], fire out [Slang]; throw etc. 284, throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push etc. 276; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll etc. (abrogate) 756; turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to, turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople^†, dispeople^†; depopulate; relegate, deport.    empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.    embowel^†, disbowel^†, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate^†; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate^†.    vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck^†, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god.    disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber^†; eructate; drool.    unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump.    be let out.    spew forth, erupt, ooze etc. (emerge) 295.    ... show more

Dutch: uitzetten, uitdoen

Reap or harvest.

Fell by sawing; hew.

Penetrate injuriously.

Refuse to acknowledge:
— She cut him dead at the meeting.

synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub.

Roget 460: be negligent etc. adj.; take no care of etc. (take care of) etc. 459; neglect; let slip, let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of.    overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at; gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller [Fr.].    scamp; trifle, fribble^†; do by halves; cut; slight etc. (despise) 930; play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer [Fr.]; take a cursory view of etc. 457.    slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit^†, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table [Parl.]; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to etc. 457, not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget etc. 506; be caught napping etc. (not expect) 508; leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.    render neglectful etc. adj.; put off one's guard, throw off one's guard; distract, divert.    ... show more

Shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of.

Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things:
— We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet.

synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize.

Dissolve by breaking down the fat of.

Have a reducing effect.

Cease, stop:
— Cut the noise.
— We had to cut short the conversation.

synonym: cut off.

Dutch: afkappen

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.

synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten.

Roget 201: be short etc. adj.; render short etc. adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress etc. (contract) 195; epitomize etc. 596.    retrench, cut short, obtruncate^†; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten (in drawing). ... show more

Dutch: verkorten, versimpelen, bekorten, samentrekken

Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture:
— Cut bourbon.

synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out.

Have grow through the gums.

Grow through the gums.

Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses).

synonym: geld.

Dutch: castreren, ontmannen, snijden

Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.

Roget 959: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious^†, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication etc. n.; temulent^†, temulentive^†; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou^†, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant^†, glorious; potulent^†; squiffy [Slang]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed [Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled^†, sewed up [Slang], lushy [Slang], nappy^†, muddled, muzzy^†, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous^†, dead drunk.    woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed.    inter pocula^†; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table.    drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.    drunken, bibacious^†, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle; toping etc. v.. ... show more

Fashioned or shaped by cutting.

With parts removed:
— The drastically cut film.

synonym: shortened.

Made neat and tidy by trimming.

synonym: trimmed.

used of grass or vegetation Cut down with a hand implement or machine.

synonym: mown.

of pages of a book Having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit.

of a male animal Having the testicles removed:
— A cut horse.

synonyms: emasculated, gelded.

used of rates or prices Reduced usually sharply.

synonym: slashed.

Mixed with water:
— Sold cut whiskey.

synonyms: thinned, weakened.

Polish: cienki