| means | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food)
slaughter |
| means | (noun) the act of felling something (as a tree)
fell |
| means | (verb) cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
lop, discerp, sever |
| means | (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"
pare, trim |
| means | (verb) form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice"
carve |
| means | (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"
cut |
| means | (verb) cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
slash, gash |
| means | (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
nip, snip, clip, nip off, snip off |
| means | (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
cut down, slash |
| means | (verb) cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat"
chop up, chop |
| means | (verb) break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
break off, knap, chip, cut off |
| means | (verb) cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek"
nick, snick |
| means | (verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"
carve, chip at |
| means | (verb) cut a nick into
chip, nick |
| means | (verb) cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"
carve, cut up |
| means | (verb) cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"
pare, whittle |
| means | (verb) cut into slices; "Slice the salami, please"
slice, slice up |
| means | (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal
tail, dock, bob |
| means | (verb) cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb"
shear |
| means | (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
plane, shave |
| means | (verb) make a clean cut through; "slit her throat"
slice, slit |
| means | (verb) cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest"
hack |
| means | (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
cut down, strike down, drop, fell |
| means | (verb) cut with a hacking tool
chop, hack |
| means | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
butcher, slaughter |
| means | (verb) remove surgically; "amputate limbs"
cut off, amputate |
| means | (verb) end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
kill, stamp out |
| means | (verb) set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
break up, sever |
| means | (verb) kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
sacrifice |
| means | (verb) cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
kill |
| means | (verb) remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
stem |
| means | (verb) make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"
hew, hew out |
| means | (verb) complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement; "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the building"
close |
| means | (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten
disconnect |
| means | (verb) cut with shears; "shear hedges"
shear |
| means | (verb) finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.); "The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board"
close |
| means | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
mow down, massacre, slaughter |
| means | (verb) strip the skin off; "pare apples"
skin, pare, peel |
| means | (verb) remove body hair with a razor
shave |
| means | (verb) terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"
interrupt, break |
| means | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
deaden |
| means | (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
terminate, finish, cease, end, stop |
| means | (verb) remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
chop off, cut off, lop off |
| means | (verb) strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"
hew |
| means | (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses"
nick |
| means | (verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"
lay off, furlough |
| means | (verb) stem the flow of; "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation"
shut off, close off |
| means | (verb) convert into a pollard; "pollard trees"
poll, pollard |
| means | (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
deaden |
| means | (verb) make less sharp; "blunt the knives"
blunt |
| means | (verb) make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
dull, blunt |
| means | (verb) get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
cast off, throw, drop, shed, throw away, throw off, shake off, cast |
| means | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
trim, crop, dress, lop, clip, snip, prune, cut back |
| means | (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
break, crack, check |
| means | (verb) block passage through; "obstruct the path"
block, close up, obturate, occlude, obstruct, jam, impede |
| means | (verb) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
break, stop, break off, discontinue |
| means | (verb) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
shear |
| means | (verb) decrease gradually or bit by bit
pare, pare down |
| means | (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"
break, break up |
| means | (verb) put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
discontinue, give up, stop, quit, cease, lay off |
| means | (verb) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
fail, give out, break, go bad, conk out, die, go, give way, break down |
| means | (verb) go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
wear, wear out, break, fall apart, bust |
| means | (verb) ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"
bust, break |
| means | (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes)
drop, flatten |