Synonyms of the word

cutting

• v. present participle of cut.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
• n. (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
• n. (countable) A newspaper clipping.
• n. (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
• n. (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
• n. (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
• n. (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
• n. (machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
• n. (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
• adj. (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
• adj. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.

bleak

• adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
• adj. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
• adj. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
• n. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

carving

• n. A carved object.
• n. The craft of producing a carved object.
• v. present participle of carve.
• v. (snowboarding) Executing turns without pivoting.

clipping

• v. present participle of clip.
• n. (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
• n. (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
• n. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain…
• n. (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
• n. (uncountable, American football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's…

cold

• adj. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
• adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
• adj. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
• adj. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
• adj. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
• adj. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
• adj. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
• adj. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
• adj. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
• adj. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
• adj. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
• adj. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
• adj. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare…
• adj. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
• n. A condition of low temperature.
• n. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and…
• adv. While at low temperature.
• adv. Without preparation.
• adv. With finality.
• adv. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

dilution

• n. The action of the verb dilute.
• n. The process of making something dilute.
• n. A solution that has had additional solvent, such as water, added to it into order to make it less concentrated.

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

edged

• v. simple past tense and past participle of edge.
• adj. That has a sharp planar surface.
• adj. followed by with: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

excerpt

• n. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition…
• v. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

excerption

• n. The act of excerpting or selecting.
• n. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

extract

• n. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
• n. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
• n. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential…
• n. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained.
• n. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant…
• n. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all…
• n. Ancestry; descent.
• n. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein,…
• v. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction,…
• v. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
• v. (transitive) To select parts of a whole.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

keen

• adj. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness…
• adj. Fierce, intense, vehement.
• adj. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
• adj. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
• adj. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
• adj. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
• adj. (Britain) Extremely low as to be competitive.
• adj. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
• n. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
• v. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
• v. (transitive) To mourn.

knifelike

• adj. Resembling a knife or its effects.

lancinate

• v. To pierce or stab (as with a lance), to lance.

lancinating

• v. present participle of lancinate.
• adj. (especially of pain) Sharp, stabbing or piercing.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

piece

• n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
• n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
• n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
• n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
• n. An artillery gun.
• n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
• n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
• n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
• n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
• n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
• n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
• n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
• n. (US) A pacifier.
• n. (colloquial) A distance.
• v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
• v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
• v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

piercing

• v. present participle of pierce.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to pierce.
• n. A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it.
• n. The jewelry itself.
• adj. Anything or anyone that pierces.

raw

• adj. Of food: not cooked.
• adj. Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
• adj. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
• adj. New or inexperienced.
• adj. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
• adj. Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.
• adj. Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.
• adj. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
• adv. (slang) Without a condom.
• n. (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
• n. (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
• n. (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (polished or purged of blemishes arising from the…

selection

• n. The process or act of selecting.
• n. Something selected.
• n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• n. A musical piece.
• n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

sharp

• adj. Able to cut easily.
• adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
• adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
• adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
• adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
• adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
• adj. Sudden and intense.
• adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
• adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
• adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
• adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
• adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
• adj. Observant; alert; acute.
• adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
• adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
• adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
• adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
• adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
• adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
• adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
• adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
• adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
• adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
• adv. (not comparable) Exactly.
• adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
• n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff…
• n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed…
• n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
• n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
• n. A sharp tool or weapon.
• n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
• n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
• n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
• n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
• n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
• n. (in the plural) middlings.
• n. (slang, dated) An expert.
• n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
• v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
• v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

shortening

• n. (US, cooking) Solid fat, such as margarine, lard or butter, used to make shortcrust pastry.
• n. verbal noun of shorten.
• v. present participle of shorten.

slip

• n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
• n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
• n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
• n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
• n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
• n. A long, thin piece of something.
• n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
• n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
• v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
• v. (intransitive) To err.
• v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
• v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
• v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
• v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
• v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
• v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
• v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
• v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
• n. An act or instance of slipping.
• n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
• n. A slipdress.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
• n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
• n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
• n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
• n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
• n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
• n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
• n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
• n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
• n. An outside covering or case.
• n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
• n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
• n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
• n. A particular quantity of yarn.
• n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
• n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
• n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
• n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
• n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
• n. A fish, the sole.

stabbing

• adj. (of pain) sharp, intense.
• n. An incident in which a person is stabbed.
• v. present participle of stab.

stalk

• n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
• n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
• n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
• n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• n. (zoology).
• n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
• v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
• v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
• n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
• n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
• v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

stem

• n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• n. A branch of a family.
• n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar,…
• n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy,…
• n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
• n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of…
• n. (slang) A person's leg.
• n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
• n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
• n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of…
• n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
• n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
• n. (slang) A crack pipe.
• v. To remove the stem from.
• v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
• v. To descend in a family line.
• v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
• v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
• v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
• v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
• v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed…
• n. Alternative form of steem.
• n. Alternative form of STEM.

stinging

• adj. Having the capacity to sting.
• v. present participle of sting.
• n. The act by which someone receives a sting.

thinning

• v. present participle of thin.

unkind

• adj. (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
• adj. Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
• adj. Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.