Dictionary entry details
• CUT DOWN (verb)
Meaning:
Cut down on; make a reduction in
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
trim down; cut down; reduce; trim back; cut; cut back; trim; bring down
Context examples:
reduce your daily fat intake / The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Hypernyms (to "cut down" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut down"):
shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration)
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)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
slash; cut down
Hypernyms (to "cut down" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They cut down the trees
Meaning:
Cause to come or go down
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
push down; knock down; pull down; cut down; down
Context examples:
The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect / The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
Hypernyms (to "cut down" is one way to...):
strike (deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut down"):
submarine (bring down with a blow to the legs)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The fighter managed to cut down his opponent
Meaning:
Intercept (a player)
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
cut down; cut out
Hypernyms (to "cut down" is one way to...):
arrest; check; contain; hold back; stop; turn back (hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of)
Domain category:
baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Cut with a blade or mower
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
mow; cut down
Context example:
mow the grass
Hypernyms (to "cut down" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut down"):
scythe (cut with a scythe)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They cut down rye in the field
Meaning:
Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
fell; strike down; cut down; drop
Context examples:
strike down a tree / Lightning struck down the hikers
Hypernyms (to "cut down" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Cause:
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut down"):
cut (fell by sawing; hew)
log; lumber (cut lumber, as in woods and forests)
poleax; poleaxe (fell with or as if with a poleax)
chop down (cut down)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They cut down the trees
