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Defenition of the word cutting

    • Defenition of the word cutting

      • The act or process of felling or uprooting standing trees.
      • In plant propagation, young shoots or stems removed for the purpose of growing new plants by vegetatively rooting the cuttings.
      • unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
      • cutting away parts to create a desired shape
      • an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"
      • the act of cutting something into parts; "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"
      • the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge; "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels"
      • the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "his cutting the cards before every deal soon became a ritual"
      • the act of shortening something by cutting off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut"
      • suitable for cutting or severing; "a cutting tool"; "the cutting edge"
      • a piece cut off from the main part of something
      • (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
      • as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "a gray world with ice and toothed winds"
      • a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
      • the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine"
      • the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
      • 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"
      • as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
      • the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
      • the act of diluting something
      • the act of cutting something into parts
      • the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
      • the division of a deck of cards before dealing
      • removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
      • an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
      • painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
      • unpleasantly cold and damp
      • (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

    Synonyms for the word cutting

      • acerbic
      • biting
      • bitter
      • bleak
      • callous
      • carving
      • clipping
      • cold
      • critical
      • cut
      • cutting off
      • edged
      • film editing
      • harsh
      • heartless
      • hurtful
      • icy
      • keen
      • knifelike
      • newspaper clipping
      • piercing
      • press clipping
      • press cutting
      • raw
      • sharp
      • slip
      • spiteful
      • stabbing
      • stinging
      • thinning
      • unkind
      • wounding

    Similar words in the cutting

      • cold
      • cutting
      • cutting's
      • cuttings
      • sharp
      • unkind

    Meronymys for the word cutting

      • card game
      • cards

    Hyponyms for the word cutting

      • clip
      • clipping
      • dissection
      • gash
      • haircut
      • incision
      • nick
      • notch
      • petroglyph
      • pruning
      • quickset
      • scission
      • section
      • severance
      • severing
      • shearing
      • slash
      • slicing
      • snick
      • snip
      • surgical incision
      • trim
      • trimming
      • truncation
      • undercut

    Hypernyms for the word cutting

      • creating by removal
      • diluting
      • dilution
      • division
      • excerpt
      • excerption
      • extract
      • opening
      • part
      • piece
      • selection
      • shortening
      • stalk
      • stem
      • surname

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