CUT INTO
Dictionary entry overview: What does cut into mean?
• CUT INTO (verb)
The verb CUT INTO has 1 sense:
1. turn up, loosen, or remove earth
Familiarity information: CUT INTO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CUT INTO (verb)
Meaning:
Turn up, loosen, or remove earth
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
cut into; delve; dig; turn over
Context examples:
Dig we must / turn over the soil for aeration
Hypernyms (to "cut into" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut into"):
furrow; groove; rut (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)
root; rootle; rout (dig with the snout)
spade (dig (up) with a spade)
shovel (dig with or as if with a shovel)
trowel (use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work)
burrow; tunnel (move through by or as by digging)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
