Dictionary entry details
• CUT BACK (verb)
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
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
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
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
