“cuts” is a form of
cut
/kʌt/ verb, adjective, noun, interjection
Forms cuts cutting cutted cutten cvt
- verb To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- verb To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. “Would you please cut the cake?”
- verb To form or shape by cutting. “I have three diamonds to cut today.”
- verb (slang) To wound with a knife.
- verb (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin. “The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.”
- verb (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- verb To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce. “Sarcasm cuts to the quick.”
- verb To castrate or geld. “to cut a horse”
- adjective (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- adjective Reduced. “The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.”
- adjective (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- adjective (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- adjective (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- adjective (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- adjective (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
- adjective (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- noun (literal, figurative) The act of cutting. “He made a fine cut with his sword.”
- noun (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- noun (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- noun (literal, figurative) The result of cutting. “a smooth or clear cut”
Synonyms
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Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English cutten, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”).
Copmare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced Middle English snithen (from snīþan), still attested in dialectal snithe and snead. See snide.
The adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally humorous derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg or to have cut your leg, a euphemism for being very drunk.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To sparate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
- verb To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
- verb To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
- verb To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
Etymology [OE. cutten, kitten, ketten; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. cwtau to shorten, curtail, dock, cwta bobtailed, cwt tail, skirt, Gael. cutaich to shorten, curtail, dock, cutach short, docked, cut a bobtail, piece, Ir. cut a short tail, cutach bobtailed. Cf. Coot.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “cut”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details