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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up with tool |
| Synonyms: | axe, cleave, clip, cube, dice, divide, fell, fragment, hack, hackle, hash, hew, lop, mangle, mince, sever, shear, slash, truncate, whack |
| Main Entry: | ax/axe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut with large blade |
| Synonyms: | chop, cut, cut down, fell, hew |
| Main Entry: | cheek |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | side of human face |
| Synonyms: | chop*, choppers, gill, jowl |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | knock a piece out of |
| Synonyms: | break, chisel, chop, clip, crack, crack off, crumble, cut away, cut off, damage, flake, fragment, gash, hack, hackle, hew, incise, nick, notch, shape, shear, slash, slice, sliver, snick, snip, splinter, split, whack, whittle |
| Main Entry: | cleave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide, split |
| Synonyms: | carve, chop, crack, cut, dissect, dissever, disunite, divorce, hack, hew, open, part, pierce, rend, rip, rive, separate, sever, slice, stab, sunder, tear asunder, whack |
| Antonyms: | join, meld, unite |
| Main Entry: | condense |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abridge |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, blue pencil, boil down, chop, coagulate, compact, compress, concentrate, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut down, decoct, densen, digest, edit, encapsulate, epitomize, inventory, precipitate, press together, précis, put in a nutshell, reduce, shorten, shrink, snip, solidify, sum, summarize, summate, synopsize, telescope, thicken, trim |
| Antonyms: | enlarge, expand, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | crack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break, usually into parts |
| Synonyms: | burst, chip, chop, cleave, crackle, crash, damage, detonate, explode, fracture, hurt, impair, injure, pop, ring, rive, sever, shiver, snap, splinter, split |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend |
| Main Entry: | crop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, trim off |
| Synonyms: | chop, clip, curtail, detach, detruncate, disengage, hew, lop, mow, pare, pollard, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, skive, slash, snip, top, truncate |
| Main Entry: | cuff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating with hands |
| Synonyms: | belt, biff, box, buffet, chop, clip, clout, hit, knock, poke, punch, rap, slap, smack, sock, thump, wallop, whack |
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