adj
Meaning 1
Having been cut down; reduced in strength or power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
cut down
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verb
Meaning 2
To cut downward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, literally
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verb
Meaning 3
To adulterate a drug.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literally, transitive
Examples
- We need to cut the cocaine down.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To bring down by cutting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- They want to cut down several trees to make room for the parking lot.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To insult, to belittle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 6
To reduce the amount of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- He wants to cut down on extra steps.
- Please don't put the candy jar right next to my desk. I'm trying to cut down on sugar.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To slay, often in great numbers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, idiomatic
Examples
- I will cut you down where you stand.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To shoot a gun; to shoot (someone or many people), usually to kill them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang, transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To challenge (someone); to prove superiority to (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
cut down on; make a reduction in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- reduce your daily fat intake
- The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reduce, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decrease, lessen, minify
Narrower terms: shorten, spill, quench, retrench, slash, thin out, thin, take away, detract, deflate, inflate, downsize, subtract, shave, knock off
verb
Meaning 11
intercept (a player)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cut out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back
verb
Meaning 12
cause to come or go down
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
- The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: down, knock down, push down, pull down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: strike
Narrower terms: submarine
verb
Meaning 13
cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- strike down a tree
- Lightning struck down the hikers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fell, drop, strike down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cut
Narrower terms: chop down, poleax, poleaxe, log, lumber, cut
verb
Meaning 14
cut with a blade or mower
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- mow the grass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cut
Narrower terms: scythe
verb
Meaning 15
cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cut
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: kəsmək — bring down a tree
- Chinese Mandarin: 砍倒 (kǎndǎo) — bring down a tree
- Czech: pokácet — bring down a tree
- Dutch: vellen — bring down a tree
- Esperanto: dehaki — bring down a tree
- Finnish: kaataa — bring down a tree
- French: abattre — bring down a tree
- Galician: pinchar — bring down a tree
- Galician: cortar — bring down a tree
- German: fällen — bring down a tree
- Hebrew: כָּרַת (karát) — bring down a tree
- Hebrew: חָטַב (ẖatáv) — bring down a tree
- Ido: abatar — bring down a tree
- Old Church Slavonic: исѣщи (isěšti) — bring down a tree
- Old Church Slavonic: сѣщи (sěšti) — bring down a tree
- Old English: fellan — bring down a tree
- Old English: fiellan — bring down a tree
- Old English: āhēawan — bring down a tree
- Russian: срубать (srubatʹ) — bring down a tree
- Russian: спиливать (spilivatʹ) — bring down a tree
- Spanish: talar — bring down a tree
- Tocharian B: kärst- — bring down a tree
- Ukrainian: зруба́ти (zrubáty) — bring down a tree
- Ukrainian: зру́бувати (zrúbuvaty) — bring down a tree
- Azerbaijani: alçaltmaq — insult, belittle
- Russian: умалять (umaljatʹ) — insult, belittle
- Russian: принижать (prinižatʹ) — insult, belittle
- Spanish: bajarle los humos — insult, belittle
- Azerbaijani: azaltmaq — reduce the amount of something
- Azerbaijani: ixtisara salmaq — reduce the amount of something
- Azerbaijani: ixtisar etmək — reduce the amount of something
- Finnish: vähentää — reduce the amount of something
- French: réduire — reduce the amount of something
- French: diminuer — reduce the amount of something
- German: kürzen — reduce the amount of something
- German: einschränken — reduce the amount of something
- Portuguese: reduzir — reduce the amount of something
- Russian: сокраща́ть (sokraščátʹ) — reduce the amount of something
- Russian: снижа́ть (snižátʹ) — reduce the amount of something
- Russian: уменьша́ть (umenʹšátʹ) — reduce the amount of something