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adjective

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as in biting
causing intense discomfort to one's skin a frigid day with a cutting wind that made it seem even colder

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as in sharpened
having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something the cutting side of the sword blade

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as in satirical
marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings her cutting comments serve only one purpose: to make someone cry

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cutting

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noun

ˈkə-tiŋ How to pronounce cutting (audio)
as in slice
a piece that has been separated from the whole by cutting a bag full of grass cuttings

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cutting

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verb

present participle of cut
1
as in slicing
to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) I cut my hand on a piece of broken glass

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as in skipping
to fail to attend a warning that she had been cutting too many classes without valid excuses

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as in isolating
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely the snobbish lady cut anyone who didn't meet her standards of wealth and social standing

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as in shaving
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument when you cut the pad, make it a little smaller than the carpet

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as in mowing
to shorten the standing leafy plant cover of you need to cut the lawn very soon—before it becomes a jungle

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as in diluting
to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances the fruit juice was so cut with water that it was barely a fruit-flavored drink

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as in veering
to depart abruptly from a straight line or course cut towards the goal, eluding a defender

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as in intersecting
to divide by passing through or across a long mountain range virtually cuts that country in half

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as in analyzing
to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships whichever way you cut it, we won't be seeing any profits from the business for at least three years

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutting
  1. biting
  2. slice
  3. skipping
  4. analyzing
  5. sharp
  6. satiric
  7. cut
  8. missing
Adjective
  • After Leaving Mr Mackenzie Jean Rhys, 1931 Rhys was one of those amazing, tragic, ahead-of-her-time women and her life mirrored that of Julia, the main character in this book, which is a raging scream against the patriarchy and a biting critique of how women are viewed.
    The Week UK, theweek, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The sketch seemed to be SNL’s attempt to balance the cold open’s levity with a more biting tone about the wearying stakes of deciding the nation’s leadership.
    Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of biting
Noun
  • The positive slice of this people-movement scorecard was led by California rivals.
    Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Understand and Improve Your Score With a maximum value of 15 points, Browser Security is the second biggest pie slice.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of slice
Verb
  • Thanks to social media, our human brains are becoming more attuned to skipping things that don't instantly grab our attention.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Microsoft wants to hear from game developers who might be skipping Xbox or those already building games using the company’s developer tools.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of skipping
Verb
  • Lawyers and law enforcement have spent months analyzing bystander videos of the May 1, 2023, incident, in which Penny, who was honorably discharged from the Marines in 2021, wrapped his arms around Neely's neck, pinning him while the two were on the floor of the train.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Key strategies for assessing TCO include analyzing initial infrastructure costs, ongoing operational expenses (like maintenance and energy) and data retrieval and scalability costs.
    Danny Hayes, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of analyzing
Adjective
  • Washington could’ve been sharper on that possession — Jayden Daniels missed an open receiver on a crosser one play before the Ekeler drop.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Since 2000, there has been a sharp increase in pediatric cannabis calls to the nation’s poison centers.
    Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of sharp
Adjective
  • Mann at his most satiric has Settembrini contributing an essay to a multivolume project whose purpose is to end suffering.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Others are satiric vignettes—pointed takedowns of sham humanitarians, sham foreign journalists, sham white saviors and their sham schemes to save the continent—whose villains can read more like stock inventions than like surprising ones.
    Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of satiric
Noun
  • Many Democrats campaigned on a tax-the-rich agenda and advocated paying for other tax cuts by targeting those provisions, as well as rolling back the law’s tax cuts for corporations and individuals making more than $400,000 per year.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Consumers will find price cuts on tech gadgets, clothing, home goods, toys, and personal care items.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of cut
Verb
  • The Rams are missing a ton of pieces and their secondary is getting picked apart.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of missing
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