Dictionary entry details
• CUT OUT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having been cut out
Context example:
the cut-out pieces of the dress
Similar:
cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)
• CUT OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Delete or remove
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context examples:
Cut out the extra text / cut out the newspaper article
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
do away with; eliminate; get rid of (terminate or take out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut out"):
excise (remove by cutting)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Form and create by cutting out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)
"Cut out" entails doing...:
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut out"):
gouge out (make gouges into a surface)
rabbet (cut a rectangular groove into)
die; die out (cut or shape with a die)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cut off and stop
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
cut out; cut off
Context example:
The bicyclist was cut out by the van
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
intercept; stop (seize on its way)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
scratch out; cut out
Context example:
scratch out my name on that list
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Intercept (a player)
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
cut down; cut out
Hypernyms (to "cut out" 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:
Cease operating
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The pump suddenly cut out
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
