💸 To sell cheaper 🪚 To cut underneath 🪓 To notch a tree 🎾 To give backspin ✂️ A lower cut 🌳 A tree notch ⛏️ Removed material 💇 A short hairstyle 🥩 A tender meat 🏓 A spin shot

undercut

7.1

A cut made under something that creates an overhang

noun
/ˈʌndərˌkʌt/

Specialized

: rebaje

The cliff's undercut created a natural shelter for the hikers during the storm.

Examples

She noticed that the undercut on the tree trunk showed where it had been felled carefully for a controlled fall.
Tragically, what little American support remained for the peace effort was further undercut in March by the FARC's brutal assassination of three Americans, and by the ELN's hijacking of a Colombian airplane the following month.

Academic text (1999)
The carpenter made an undercut to support the overhanging structure of the porch.

Antonyms

to support

240 1.0

Hold up something so it does not fall

How Deep

to gouge

20 7.2

undercut

Specialized

7.1

notch

85 3.9

Surface Forms

undercut singular

undercuts plural

Morphology

undercut = cut (transparent) = under + cut

The noun denotes the result of cutting from underneath and is directly derived from 'under' + 'cut'.

Etymology

Undercut is made of under 'below' plus cut 'to cut'. It names the actual cut made below an object that creates an overhanging edge. So an undercut is the lower cut or hollow left under a piece.