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Definition of Cut down

1. Verb. Cut down on; make a reduction in. "They will cut down the duet"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

2. Verb. Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete. "They cut down the trees"

3. Verb. Cause to come or go down. "The fighter managed to cut down his opponent"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"

4. Verb. Intercept (a player).

5. Verb. Cut with a blade or mower. "They cut down rye in the field"; "Mow the grass"

6. Verb. Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow. "They cut down the trees"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"

Definition of Cut down

1. Verb. (&lit cut down) ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To bring down by cutting. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To insult, to belittle. ¹

4. Verb. (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Down

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

cut back cut bait cut both ways cut capers cut corners cut down (current term) cut fastball cut from the same cloth cut in cut into

cut it cut it close cut it fine cut like a knife cut line cut loose cut no ice cut of beef

Literary usage of Cut down

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

1. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1876)
"... should view, and mark what timber trees were then fit to be cut down ; that then the parties should agree, and appoint by writing under their hands, ..."

2. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"U. Order for occupiers of land to make hedges, and cut down trees. Vide p. 692. At a special sessions held at - in the hundred of - in the county of - on ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... the mean radial asymmetry is lowered, the proportion of ovaries with odd numbers of ovules in one or more locules is very stringently cut down, ..."

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