cut

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of CUT

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) <I cut my hand on a piece of broken glass>

Synonyms gash, incise, rip, shear, slash, slice, slit

Related Words crosscut, hacksaw, saw, scissor; cleave, rive, split; pierce, stab; bruise, butcher, hack, haggle, lacerate, mangle; rend, tear; carve, chip, chisel, notch; anatomize, dissect, section; chop, dice, mince; amputate, cut off, sever

to fail to attend <a warning that she had been cutting too many classes without valid excuses>

Synonyms blow off, miss, skip

Related Words ignore, neglect, pass over

Phrases absent oneself, play hooky

Antonyms attend, show up (for)

to deliberately ignore or treat rudely <the snobbish lady cut anyone who didn't meet her standards of wealth and social standing>

Synonyms cold-shoulder, cut, high-hat, slight, stiff, stiff-arm

Related Words isolate, ostracize; brush (aside or off), disdain, rebuff, reject, repel, repulse, scorn, spurn; disregard, forget, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, shrug off

to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument <when you cut the pad, make it a little smaller than the carpet>

Synonyms bob, crop, cut, cut back, dock, lop (off), nip, pare, poll, prune, shave, shear, snip, trim

Related Words skive, whittle; manicure, mow; pinch, stump; curtail, shorten

Near Antonyms elongate, extend, lengthen

to shorten the standing leafy plant cover of <you need to cut the lawn very soon—before it becomes a jungle>

Synonyms cut

Related Words clip, crop, curtail, cut back, dock, hack, lop, manicure, nip, pare, prune, trim; bob, shave, shear, snip

to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances <the fruit juice was so cut with water that it was barely a fruit-flavored drink>

Synonyms cut, dilute, extend, lace, sophisticate, thin, water down, weaken

Near Antonyms fertilize, lard; augment, reinforce (also reenforce), supplement; decontaminate, purify; clarify, clean, cleanse, distill (also distil), filter, flush, leach, pasteurize, purge, refine; better, enhance, improve; compact, concentrate, condense

Antonyms enrich, fortify, richen, strengthen

to depart abruptly from a straight line or course <cut towards the goal, eluding a defender>

Synonyms break, cut, sheer, veer, yaw, zag, zig

Related Words skew, slew (also slue); arc, arch, bend, bow, crook, curve, hook, round, sweep, wheel; about-face, pivot; circle, coil, curl, loop, spiral; turn, twist, wind; weave, zigzag; deviate, stray, wander, waver

Antonyms straighten

to divide by passing through or across <a long mountain range virtually cuts that country in half>

Synonyms bisect, cross, cut

Related Words crisscross, decussate

to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships <whichever way you cut it, we won't be seeing any profits from the business for at least three years>

Synonyms anatomize, assay, break down, cut, deconstruct, dissect