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CUT UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut into pieces
Classified under:
Similar:
cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Significantly cut up a manuscript
Synonyms:
cut up; hack
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut up" is one way to...):
edit; redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They won't cut up the story
Sense 2
Meaning:
Destroy or injure severely
Example:
The madman mutilates art work
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut up" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Separate into isolated compartments or categories
Example:
You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
Synonyms:
compartmentalise; compartmentalize; cut up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut up" is one way to...):
disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cut to pieces
Example:
Father carved the ham
Synonyms:
carve; cut up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut up" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut up"):
shave (make shavings of or reduce to shavings)
filet; fillet (cut into filets)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They cut up the cape
Context examples:
On the south of the house is, as you perceive, a large district of arable land, cut up into small fields, with stone walls between them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So they finally departed, grumbling greatly that in all probability, if the thing were so, he had neglected to cut up the carcasses.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I saw where Boots had faced round, where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me that I was not mistaken.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went to see The Stranger, as a Doctors' Commons sort of play, and was so dreadfully cut up, that I hardly knew myself in my own glass when I got home.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"They did cut up more'n usual," Henry acknowledged.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Could I immediately apply to either, however, I should still prefer you, because it strikes me that they have all along been so unwilling to have their own amusements cut up, as to shut their eyes to the truth.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In a few minutes the huge beast had been cut up and slabs of him were hanging over a dozen camp fires, together with great scaly ganoid fish which had been speared in the lake.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To restrain him as much as might be, by her own manners, she was immediately preparing to speak with exquisite calmness and gravity of the weather and the night; but scarcely had she begun, scarcely had they passed the sweep-gate and joined the other carriage, than she found her subject cut up—her hand seized—her attention demanded, and Mr. Elton actually making violent love to her: availing himself of the precious opportunity, declaring sentiments which must be already well known, hoping—fearing—adoring—ready to die if she refused him; but flattering himself that his ardent attachment and unequalled love and unexampled passion could not fail of having some effect, and in short, very much resolved on being seriously accepted as soon as possible.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We were a little like undertakers, in the Commons, as regarded Probate transactions; generally making it a rule to look more or less cut up, when we had to deal with clients in mourning.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about my friend such a one.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
