cut
vb
1 chop, cleave, divide, gash, incise, lacerate, lance, nick, notch, penetrate, pierce, score, sever, slash, slice, slit, wound
2 carve, chip, chisel, chop, engrave, fashion, form, inscribe, saw, sculpt, sculpture, shape, whittle
3 clip, dock, fell, gather, hack, harvest, hew, lop, mow, pare, prune, reap, saw down, shave, snip, trim
4 contract, cut back, decrease, diminish, downsize, ease up on, lower, rationalize, reduce, slash, slim (down)
5 abbreviate, abridge, condense, curtail, delete, edit out, excise, precis, shorten
6 (often with)
through, off, or across bisect, carve, cleave, cross, dissect, divide, interrupt, intersect, part, segment, sever, slice, split, sunder
7 avoid, cold-shoulder, freeze (someone) out (informal) grieve, hurt, ignore, insult, look straight through (someone), pain, put down, send to Coventry, slight, snub, spurn, sting, turn one's back on, wound
n
8 gash, graze, groove, incision, laceration, nick, rent, rip, slash, slit, snip, stroke, wound
9 cutback, decrease, decrement, diminution, economy, fall, lowering, reduction, saving
10 (informal) chop (slang) division, kickback (chiefly U.S.) percentage, piece, portion, rake-off (slang) section, share, slice
11 configuration, fashion, form, look, mode, shape, style
12 a cut above (informal) better than, higher than, more capable than, more competent than, more efficient than, more reliable than, more trustworthy than, more useful than, superior to
13 cut and dried (informal) automatic, fixed, organized, prearranged, predetermined, settled, sorted out (informal)
Antonyms
5 add to, augment, enlarge, expand, extend, fill out, increase
7 accept gladly, embrace, greet, hail, receive, welcome with open arms