| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut |
| Synonyms: | carve, chop, gash, hack, incise, injure, lacerate, open up, pierce, rend, rip, score, sever, slice, slit, wound |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | abridge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abstract, blue pencil, chop, clip, compress, concentrate, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize, lessen, limit, narrow, put in nutshell, reduce, restrict, slash, snip, summarize, trim, truncate |
| Antonyms: | add, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrode, eat away |
| Synonyms: | burn, consume, decay, decompose, deteriorate, dissolve, eat into, engrave, erode, etch, oxidize, rot, rust, scour, sear, slash, smart, sting, tingle, wear away |
| Main Entry: | carve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut carefully with sharp instrument |
| Synonyms: | block out, chip, chisel, cleave, dissect, dissever, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, form, grave, hack, hew, incise, indent, insculpt, model, mold, mould, pattern, rough-hew, sculpt, shape, slash, slice, stipple, sunder, tool, trim, whittle |
| 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: | chop |
| 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: | clip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut short |
| Synonyms: | bob, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, decrease, dock, lower, mow, pare, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, skive, slash, snip, trim, truncate |
| Antonyms: | lengthen |
| 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: | curtail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut short; abridge |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, boil down, chop, clip, contract, cramp, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, dock, downsize, get to meat, halt, lessen, lop, minify, pare down, put in nutshell, reduce, retrench, roll back, shorten, slash, trim, truncate |
| Antonyms: | extend, increase, lengthen, prolong |