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Cutting

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Similar meaning 6

Cold 84% connected

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

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Cold 84% connected

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

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Sharp 84% connected

Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.

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Sharp 84% connected

Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.

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Unkind 84% connected

Having no race or kindred; childless.

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Unkind 84% connected

Having no race or kindred; childless.

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Clip 76% connected

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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Clipping 76% connected

of Clip

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Dissection 76% connected

The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

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Gash 76% connected

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

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Incision 76% connected

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

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Nick 76% connected

An evil spirit of the waters.

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Notch 76% connected

A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

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Pruning 76% connected

of Prune

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Quickset 76% connected

A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

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Scission 76% connected

The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Severance 76% connected

The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.

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Severing 76% connected

of Sever

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Shearing 76% connected

of Shear

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Slash 76% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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Slicing 76% connected

of Slice

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Snick 76% connected

A small cut or mark.

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Snip 76% connected

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

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Trim 76% connected

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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Trimming 76% connected

of Trim

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Truncation 76% connected

The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

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Undercut 76% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

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Dilution 76% connected

The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.

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Division 76% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Excerpt 76% connected

To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

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Excerption 76% connected

The act of excerpting or selecting.

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Opening 76% connected

of Open

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Selection 76% connected

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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Shortening 76% connected

of Shorten

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Stalk 76% connected

The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

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Stem 76% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Derivationally related 4

Cut 74% connected

of Cut

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Cut 74% connected

of Cut

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Dilute 74% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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Dilute 74% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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Synonym 13

Bleak 92% connected

Without color; pale; pallid.

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Carving 92% connected

of Carve

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Clipping 92% connected

of Clip

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Cut 92% connected

of Cut

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Edged 92% connected

of Edge

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Keen 92% connected

Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.

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Lancinating 92% connected

of Lanciname

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Piercing 92% connected

of Pierce

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Raw 92% connected

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suit…

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Slip 92% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Stabbing 92% connected

of Stab

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Stinging 92% connected

of Sting

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Thinning 92% connected

of Thin

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