Definition of Cut away

1. Verb. Move quickly to another scene or focus when filming. "`cut away now!' the director shouted"

Generic synonyms: Cut

2. Verb. Remove by cutting off or away. "Cut away the branch that sticks out"
Generic synonyms: Cut
Specialized synonyms: Undercut, Undercut

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Away

cut-throat razor
cut-throat razors
cut-up
cut a caper
cut a dash
cut a rug
cut a swath
cut a swathe
cut a wide swath
cut a wide swathe
cut across
cut and cover
cut and dried
cut and paste
cut and run
cut away (current term)
cut back
cut bait
cut both ways
cut capers
cut corners
cut down
cut fastball
cut from the same cloth
cut in
cut into
cut it
cut it close

Literary usage of Cut away

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"like something that had grown in her flesh with pain, but that she could never have cut away without worse pain. She went close to her brother, and, ..."

2. The Law of General Average by Richard Lowndes, Edward Louis De Hart, George Rupert Rudolf, William Robertson Coe (1912)
"I may conclude this section by adding one Sail cut away case in which a sacrifice purposely made is not in practice treated as general average, ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"(The Pancreas has been cut away, except its head.) The ileum, («х«», to twist\ so called from its numerous coils or convolution?, includes the remaining ..."

4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"125. gre (with letters cut away after e). 126. fe refe (altered to ]>e erfe, ... 154. he mift (with long s; part of the h is cut away; but read he). 157. ..."

5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"CUT-AWAY, a coat, the skirts of which are cut away, so that they do not hang down »s in a frock-coat : also used as an adjective. ..."

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