cut
337
1.0
- noun
- /kʌt/
:
corte
- I have a small cut on my finger from slicing the vegetables.
- cut on my finger
- deep cut
- cuts and bruises
Put your mouth over the cut and suck.
- Put your mouth over the cut and suck.
- The stones cut and the cuts are long to heal.
- I don't see a a cut, a bruise, swelling, redness.
- And I do most of my cut management here with that.
- It it, you know, but the paper cut thing is wow.
- Now imagine you have cuts in wounds in your digestive system.
Examples
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Water must have healed my cut.
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The salty sweat on those cuts and scrapes burned for weeks.
Academic text (2011) -
I only have a rather large cut on my head, sir.
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I was afraid to cross the cut he made in the floor.
Academic text (1998) -
It's just an old cut that opens up every now and then.
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Let's take care of that cut, Lucy is right.
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Let me wash those cuts and put some oil on.
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I'll get something for that cut.
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It was a quarter inch cut and I was crying like a baby.
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Frowning slightly, he touched her belly, where the faint bikini-cut scar made a thin white line.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
87
5.3
A cut a doctor makes in the body during an operation
75
7.7
A deep cut in the skin or flesh with rough, torn edges
70
2.7
Making an opening or removing part from something with a sharp tool
30
3.9
A long deep cut in skin or a surface
24
5.1
The removal of part of something with a sharp tool, like a branch or wire
17
3.6
A long deep cut made by a sharp object
15
1.3
A small trimming of hair or plants to make them neater
6
4.1
An act of cutting someone or something with a sharp object
5
5.1
A cut in the skin made by a sharp object
4
7.0
A deep cut or scratch in a surface made by a sharp object
2
1.9
Cutting food into thin pieces for eating or cooking
2
5.8
Cutting something so it becomes separate
1
3.8
A cut a surgeon makes in the body during an operation
A deliberate cut that divides tissue during surgery
A scar on the skin made by a sword
Antonyms
Idioms
1
9.8
Deliberately do something that hurts you more than the person you want to punish
- Informal
1
7.7
To become independent from your parents and live on your own
- Informal
1
6.8
To become independent from parents and make your own decisions
- Australian
To criticize someone who stands out to make them seem less successful
- Informal
To check something carefully before you do it to avoid mistakes
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.8
A sudden change between two film shots that makes action or time seem to skip
- Specialized
1
7.2
A short announcement that interrupts a program to give local news or alerts
An event when shops sell goods at much lower prices for a short time to clear old stock
- Specialized
A sudden cut between shots in a film that shows time passing or makes the action jump
How Deep
- Specialized
34
6.5
30
3.9
- NSFW
75
7.7
337
1.0
200
3.6
203
1.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cut was used for the small mark or wound left by a blade, a 'slice' in the skin, so a cut is the physical injury or incision itself.