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CUT BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut back mean? 

CUT BACK (verb)
  The verb CUT BACK has 4 senses:

1. return in time
2. cut down on; make a reduction in
3. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
4. place restrictions on

  Familiarity information: CUT BACK used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


CUT BACK (verb)


Sense 1cut back [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Return in time

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cut back; flash back

Context example:

the film cut back to an earlier event in the story

Hypernyms (to "cut back" is one way to...):

come back; get back; go back; return (come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP


Sense 2cut back [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Cut down on; make a reduction in

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

trim down; trim back; reduce; cut down; cut back; cut; trim; bring down

Context examples:

reduce your daily fat intake / The employer wants to cut back health benefits

Hypernyms (to "cut back" is one way to...):

decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut back"):

knock off; shave (cut the price of)

inflate (increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value)

deflate (reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices)

detract; take away (take away a part from; diminish)

thin (make thin or thinner)

thin out (make sparse)

slash (cut drastically)

retrench (make a reduction, as in one's workforce)

quench (reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance)

shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


Sense 3cut back [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

prune; lop; snip; cut back; clip; crop; trim; dress

Context example:

dress the plants in the garden

Hypernyms (to "cut back" is one way to...):

thin out (make sparse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut back"):

shear (cut with shears)

poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)

pinch; top (cut the top off)

disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They cut back the trees


Sense 4cut back [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Place restrictions on

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

curtail; restrict; curb; cut back

Context example:

curtail drinking in school

Hypernyms (to "cut back" is one way to...):

circumscribe; confine; limit (restrict or confine,)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut back"):

abridge (lessen, diminish, or curtail)

immobilise; immobilize (cause to be unable to move)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something


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