(Homonym: bight, byte).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: bit, bitten).
1. To cause a sharp of stinging pain or discomfort; SYN. sting, burn.
2. To penetrate or cut, as with a knife.
3. To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; SYN. seize with teeth.
1. To attach with a clip.
2. To terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; SYN. curtail, cut short.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: cut).
1. To separate with or as if with an instrument.
2. To shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of.
3. To make an incision or separation.
4. To function as a cutting instrument.
5. To form or shape by cutting or incising; SYN. cut out.
6. To form by probing, penetrating, or digging.
7. To fell by sawing; hew.
8. To allow incision or separation.
9. To cease, stop; SYN. cut off.
10. To divide at random.
11. To have grow through the gums.
12. (Film) To make an abrupt change of image or sound.
13. To intentionally fail to attend; SYN. skip.
14. To hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction.
15. To give the appearance or impression of.
16. To create by recording electronically.
17. To discharge from a group.
18. To dissolve by breaking down the fat of.
19. To pass directly and often in haste.
20. To pass through or across.
21. To perform or carry out.
22. To eliminate a part from the whole.
23. To style and tailor in a certain fashion; SYN. style, tailor.
24. To weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; SYN. prune, rationalize.
25. To move, as of a fist in boxing.
1. To cut or make a notch into
2. To notch a surface to record something.
To cut with or as if with scissors.
1. To cut into slices; SYN. slice up.
2. (Golf) To hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the right.
1. To deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit; SYN. deny.
2. To travel across or pass over; SYN. track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across.
A technique especially in filmmaking of interweaving bits of two or more separate scenes.
1. A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting; SYN. slip.
2. A piece cut off from the main part of something.
3. The act of diluting something; SYN. thinning.
1. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
2. Wounded by cutting deeply; SYN. gashed, slashed.
3. Having a long rip or tear; SYN. split.
4. With parts removed; SYN. shortened.
5. Cut down; SYN. cut down, down.
6. Fashioned or shaped by cutting
7. (Used of rates or prices) Reduced usually sharply; SYN. slashed.
8. (Of pages of a book) Having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
9. Mixed with water; SYN. thinned, weakened.
10. (Of a male animal) Having the testicles removed; SYN. emasculated, gelded.