To penetrate with a sharp edge

• slit

  1. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
  2. To make a slit or slits in.
  3. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.

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• slash

  1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
  2. To make a gash or gashes in.
  3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:

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• pierce

  1. To cut or pass through with or as if with a sharp instrument; stab or penetrate.
  2. To make a hole or opening in; perforate.
  3. To make a way through:

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• incise

  1. To cut into, as with a sharp instrument:
  2. To engrave (designs or writing, for example) into a surface; carve.
  3. To engrave designs, writing, or other marks into.

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• gash

  1. To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.
  2. A long deep cut.
  3. A deep flesh wound.

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To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument

• split

  1. To divide (something) from end to end, into layers, or along the grain:
  2. To cause to be split unintentionally:
  3. To cause to undergo nuclear fission or division into elements:

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• slit

  1. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
  2. To make a slit or slits in.
  3. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.

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• slice

  1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object:
  2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object:
  3. A portion or share:

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• sever

  1. To cut off (a part) from a whole:
  2. To divide into parts; break or interrupt:
  3. To break up (a relationship, for example); dissolve.

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• dissever

  1. To separate; sever.
  2. To divide into parts; break up.
  3. To become separated or disunited.

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• cleave

  1. To split with a sharp instrument.
  2. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting:
  3. To pierce or penetrate:

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• carve

  1. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice:
  2. To divide by parceling out:
  3. To cut into a desired shape; fashion by cutting:

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To bring down, as with a saw or ax.

• hew

  1. To make or shape with or as if with an ax:
  2. To cut down with an ax; fell:
  3. To strike or cut; cleave.

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• fell

  1. To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down:
  2. To kill:
  3. To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.

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• Also used with down: chop down

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To turn aside sharply from a straight course

• yaw

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• veer

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• swerve

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• slue

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• skew

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• sheer

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• chop

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To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising

• truncate

  1. To shorten or reduce:
  2. To shorten (a number) by dropping one or more digits after the decimal point.
  3. To replace (the edge of a crystal) with a plane face.

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• trim

  1. To make neat or tidy by clipping, smoothing, or pruning:
  2. To remove the excess or unwanted parts from:
  3. To remove (excess or unwanted parts):

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• slash

  1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
  2. To make a gash or gashes in.
  3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:

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• shear

  1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.
  2. To remove the hair or fleece from.
  3. To cut with or as if with shears:

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• prune

  1. The partially dried fruit of any of several varieties of the common plum, Prunus domestica.
  2. Any kind of plum that can be dried without spoiling.
  3. An ill-tempered, stupid, or incompetent person.

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• pare

  1. To remove the outer covering or skin of with a knife or similar instrument:
  2. To remove by or as if by cutting, clipping, or shaving:
  3. To reduce, as in quantity or size; trim:

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• lower

  1. To look angry, sullen, or threatening.
  2. To appear dark or stormy, as the sky.
  3. A threatening, sullen, or angry look.

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• lop

  1. To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub:
  2. To cut off a part or parts from; trim:
  3. To eliminate or excise as superfluous:

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• cut down

  1. Used other than as an idiom: see cut,"Ž down.
  2. To bring down by cutting.
  3. (idiomatic) To insult, to belittle.

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• cut back

  1. (intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
  2. (intransitive with on) To reduce spending.
  3. (intransitive with on) To reduce consumption.

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• crop

  1. Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group:
  2. The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place:
  3. A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time:

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• clip

  1. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears:
  2. To make shorter by cutting; trim:
  3. To cut off the edge of:

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• chop

  1. To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an ax:
  2. To shape or form by chopping:
  3. To cut into small pieces:

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To lessen the strength of by or as if by admixture

• weaken

  1. To make or become weak or weaker.

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• water

  1. A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H₂ O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents. Freezing point 0°C (32°F); boiling point 100°C (212°F); specific gravity (4°C) 1.0000; weight per gallon (15°C) 8.338 pounds (3.782 kilograms).
  2. Any of various forms of water:
  3. Naturally occurring mineral water, as at a spa.

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• thin

  1. Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension:
  2. Not great in diameter or cross section; fine:
  3. Having little bodily flesh or fat; lean or slender.

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• dilute

  1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
  2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
  3. To decrease the value of (shares of stock) by increasing the total number of shares.

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• attenuate

  1. To make slender, fine, or small:
  2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken:
  3. To lessen the density of; rarefy.

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To slight (someone) deliberately

• coldshoulder

  1. To slight or snub (someone).

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• spurn

  1. To reject with disdain or contempt.
  2. To kick at or tread on disdainfully.
  3. To reject something contemptuously.

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• snub

  1. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
  2. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
  3. To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.

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• shun

  1. To avoid using, accepting, engaging in, or partaking of:
  2. To refuse to accept socially; avoid having social contact with:
  3. To stay away from; not go to:

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• rebuff

  1. A blunt or abrupt repulse or refusal, as to an offer.
  2. A check or an abrupt setback to progress or action:
  3. To reject bluntly, often disdainfully; snub:

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To fail to attend on purpose

• skip

  1. To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.
  2. To leap lightly about.
  3. To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet:

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• truant

  1. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
  2. One who shirks work or duty.
  3. Absent without permission, especially from school.

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The result of cutting

• split

  1. To divide (something) from end to end, into layers, or along the grain:
  2. To cause to be split unintentionally:
  3. To cause to undergo nuclear fission or division into elements:

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• slit

  1. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
  2. To make a slit or slits in.
  3. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.

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• slice

  1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object:
  2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object:
  3. A portion or share:

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• slash

  1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
  2. To make a gash or gashes in.
  3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:

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• incision

  1. The act of incising.
  2. A cut into a body tissue or organ, especially one made during surgery.
  3. The scar resulting from such a cut.

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• gash

  1. To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.
  2. A long deep cut.
  3. A deep flesh wound.

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A part severed from a whole

• slice

  1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object:
  2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object:
  3. A portion or share:

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• segment

  1. Any of the parts into which something can be divided:
  2. The portion of a line between any two points on the line.
  3. The area bounded by a chord and the arc of a curve subtended by the chord.

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• section

  1. One of several components; a piece.
  2. A subdivision of a written work.
  3. A distinct portion or provision of a legal code or set of laws, often establishing a particular legal requirement:

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• portion

  1. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
  2. A part separated from a whole.
  3. A helping of food.

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• piece

  1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion:
  2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole:
  3. An object that is one member of a group or class:

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The act or process of decreasing

• taper

  1. A small or very slender candle.
  2. A long wax-coated wick used to light candles or gas lamps.
  3. A source of feeble light.

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• slowdown

  1. The act or process of slowing down; a slackening of pace:

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• slash

  1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
  2. To make a gash or gashes in.
  3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:

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• reduction

  1. The act or process of reducing.
  2. The result of reducing:
  3. The amount by which something is lessened or diminished:

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• drain

  1. To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process:
  2. To cause liquid to go out from; empty:
  3. To draw off the surface water of:

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• diminution

  1. The act or process of diminishing; a lessening or reduction.
  2. The resulting reduction; decrease.
  3. Statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration, usually one-half, of the original.

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• diminishment

  1. The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.

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• decrement

  1. The act or process of decreasing or becoming gradually less.
  2. The amount lost by gradual diminution or waste.
  3. The amount by which a variable is decreased; a negative increment.

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• decrease

  1. To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
  2. The act or process of decreasing.
  3. The amount by which something decreases.

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• cutback

  1. A decrease; a curtailment:
  2. A sharp reversal of direction, as of a ball carrier in football.

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• curtailment

  1. The act of curtailing

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• abatement

  1. Reduction in amount, degree, or intensity; diminution.
  2. The amount lowered; a reduction.
  3. The act of reducing something, such as a tax, for some period of time or of eliminating something, such as a nuisance, permanently.

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That which is allotted

• divvy

  1. To divide. Often used with up:
  2. A share or portion.

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• split

  1. To divide (something) from end to end, into layers, or along the grain:
  2. To cause to be split unintentionally:
  3. To cause to undergo nuclear fission or division into elements:

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• share

  1. A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group:
  2. An equitable portion:
  3. One of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a company is divided:

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• ration

  1. A fixed portion, especially an amount of food allotted to persons in military service or to civilians in times of scarcity.
  2. Food issued or available to members of a group.
  3. To supply with rations.

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• quota

  1. A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
  2. A production assignment.
  3. A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting or designated as an upper limit:

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• quantum

  1. The smallest amount of a physical quantity that can exist independently, especially a discrete quantity of electromagnetic radiation.
  2. This amount of energy regarded as a unit.
  3. A quantity or amount.

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• portion

  1. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
  2. A part separated from a whole.
  3. A helping of food.

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• part

  1. A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.
  2. Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided:
  3. A division of a book or artistic work such as a film:

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• measure

  1. A reference standard or sample used for the quantitative comparison of properties:
  2. A unit specified by a scale, such as an inch, or by variable conditions, such as a day's march.
  3. A system of measurement, such as the metric system.

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• lot

  1. A large extent, amount, or number:
  2. Used adverbially to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”:
  3. A number of associated people or things:

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• dole

  1. The distribution by the government of relief payments to the unemployed.
  2. A share of money, food, or clothing that has been charitably given:
  3. One's fate.

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• allowance

  1. The act of allowing.
  2. An amount that is allowed or granted:
  3. Something, such as money, given at regular intervals or for a specific purpose:

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• allotment

  1. The act of allotting:
  2. Something allotted:

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• allocation

  1. an allocating or being allocated
  2. a thing or amount allocated

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A deliberate slight

• go-by

  1. An intentional slight; a snub.

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• cold shoulder

  1. Deliberate coldness or disregard; a slight or a snub:

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• spurn

  1. To reject with disdain or contempt.
  2. To kick at or tread on disdainfully.
  3. To reject something contemptuously.

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• snub

  1. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
  2. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
  3. To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.

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• rebuff

  1. A blunt or abrupt repulse or refusal, as to an offer.
  2. A check or an abrupt setback to progress or action:
  3. To reject bluntly, often disdainfully; snub:

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An unexcused absence

• hooky

  1. Absence without leave; truancy:

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• truantry

  1. Truancy.

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• truancy

  1. The absence of a child from school without permission.
  2. The neglect of work or duty

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Formed by cutting

• sliced

  1. That has been cut into slices.
  2. simple past tense and past participle of slice

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• sculptured

  1. Made like a sculpture.
  2. Well shaped.

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• chiseled

  1. Made or shaped with or as if with a chisel:

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• carved

  1. simple past tense and past participle of carve
  2. Of an object, made by carving.

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Reduced

• diluted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of dilute
  2. That has had something added in order to dilute it.

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• marked down

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• lowered

  1. simple past tense and past participle of lower

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Severed

• detached

  1. Separated; disconnected:
  2. Standing apart from others; separate:
  3. Marked by an absence of emotional involvement or personal interest; aloof or unbiased.

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• sliced through

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• divided

  1. Separated into parts or pieces.
  2. Being in a state of disagreement or disunity:
  3. Moved by conflicting interests, emotions, or activities:

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• split

  1. To divide (something) from end to end, into layers, or along the grain:
  2. To cause to be split unintentionally:
  3. To cause to undergo nuclear fission or division into elements:

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Slashed

• scratched

  1. Produced by scratching.
  2. simple past tense and past participle of scratch

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• gashed

  1. Having gashes; slashed.
  2. simple past tense and past participle of gash

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• scored

  1. simple past tense and past participle of score

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• slit

  1. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
  2. To make a slit or slits in.
  3. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.

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Abridged

• edited

  1. having been altered from the original version: being something that someone has edited
  2. simple past tense and past participle of edit

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• truncated

  1. Having the apex cut off and replaced by a plane, especially one parallel to the base. Used of a cone or pyramid.
  2. Lacking one or more syllables, especially in the final foot; catalectic.
  3. Shortened or reduced:

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• abbreviated

  1. Shortened; made briefer.
  2. Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
  3. Scanty, as in clothing.

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• shortened

  1. simple past tense and past participle of shorten

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The using of a sharp instrument

• stroke

  1. The act or an instance of striking, as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool; a blow or impact.
  2. The striking of a bell or gong.
  3. The sound so produced.

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• chop

  1. To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an ax:
  2. To shape or form by chopping:
  3. To cut into small pieces:

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• carve

  1. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice:
  2. To divide by parceling out:
  3. To cut into a desired shape; fashion by cutting:

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• slice

  1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object:
  2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object:
  3. A portion or share:

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• hack

  1. To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows:
  2. To break up the surface of (soil).
  3. To alter (a computer program):

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• slitting

  1. Present participle of slit.
  2. The act by which something is slit.

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• intersecting

  1. Present participle of intersect.

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• quarter

  1. One of four equal parts.
  2. A coin equal to one fourth of the dollar of the United States and Canada.
  3. One fourth of an hour; 15 minutes.

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• felling

  1. Present participle of fell.
  2. The act by which something is felled.

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• hewing

  1. Present participle of hew.

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• severance

  1. The act or process of severing.
  2. The condition of being severed.
  3. Separation; partition.

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• separation

  1. The act or process of moving apart or forcing something apart:
  2. The condition of being apart, especially the condition of two people who had lived together or been married living in different places.
  3. An interval or space that separates; a gap:

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• incising

  1. Present participle of incise.

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• cleaving

  1. Present participle of cleave.
  2. The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
  3. The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.

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• dividing

  1. Serving to divide or separate.
  2. Present participle of divide.
  3. An act of division.

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• penetrating

  1. Able or seeming to penetrate:
  2. Keenly perceptive or understanding; acute:

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• knifing

  1. An instance of stabbing with a knife.
  2. Present participle of knife.

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• gouge

  1. A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.
  2. A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.
  3. A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.

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• prick

  1. The act of piercing or pricking.
  2. The sensation of being pierced or pricked.
  3. A persistent or sharply painful feeling of sorrow or remorse.

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• dig

  1. To break up, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example), as with a shovel, spade, or snout, or with claws, paws or hands.
  2. To make or form by removing earth or other material:
  3. To prepare (soil) by loosening or cultivating.

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• thrust

  1. To push or drive quickly and forcefully:
  2. To cause to project or extend:
  3. To force into a specified condition or situation:

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• slash

  1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
  2. To make a gash or gashes in.
  3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:

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The path left by a sharp instrument

• fissure

  1. A long narrow opening; a crack or cleft.
  2. The process of splitting or separating; division.
  3. A separation into subgroups or factions; a schism.

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• slit

  1. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
  2. To make a slit or slits in.
  3. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.

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• intersection

  1. The act, process, or result of intersecting.
  2. A place where things intersect, especially a place where two or more roads cross.
  3. The point or locus of points where one line, surface, or solid crosses another.

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• furrow

  1. A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow.
  2. A rut, groove, or narrow depression:
  3. A deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the forehead.

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• kerf

  1. A groove or notch made by a cutting tool, such as a saw or an ax.
  2. The width of a groove made by a cutting tool.

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• groove

  1. A long narrow furrow or channel.
  2. The spiral track cut into a phonograph record for the stylus to follow.
  3. A settled routine:

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• channel

  1. The bed of a stream or river.
  2. The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.
  3. A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.

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• passage

  1. Movement from one place to another:
  2. The process of elapsing:
  3. The process of changing from one condition or stage to another; transition:

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• opening

  1. The act or an instance of becoming open or being made to open:
  2. A gap, breach, or aperture:
  3. A clearing in the woods.

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• notch

  1. A V-shaped cut.
  2. Such a cut used for keeping a record.
  3. A narrow pass between mountains.

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• nick

  1. A shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an edge or a surface:
  2. A prison or police station.
  3. A groove down the side of a piece of type used to ensure that it is correctly placed.

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• mark

  1. A visible trace or impression, such as a line or spot:
  2. A name, logo, or other indicator used to indicate ownership, origin, or level of quality.
  3. A notch made in an animal's ear or hide to indicate ownership.

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• cleft

  1. Divided; split.
  2. Having indentations that extend about halfway to the center, as in certain leaves.
  3. A crack, crevice, or split.

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• gash

  1. To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.
  2. A long deep cut.
  3. A deep flesh wound.

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• penetration

  1. The successful unauthorized breach of a security perimeter. See penetration test.

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• cleavage

  1. The act of splitting or cleaving.
  2. The state of being split or cleft; a fissure or division.
  3. The splitting or tendency to split of a crystallized substance along definite crystalline planes, yielding smooth surfaces.

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• wound

  1. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
  2. An injury to the feelings.
  3. To inflict wounds or a wound on.

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• incision

  1. The act of incising.
  2. A cut into a body tissue or organ, especially one made during surgery.
  3. The scar resulting from such a cut.

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• prick

  1. The act of piercing or pricking.
  2. The sensation of being pierced or pricked.
  3. A persistent or sharply painful feeling of sorrow or remorse.

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• slash

  1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
  2. To make a gash or gashes in.
  3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:

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A reduction

• lessening

  1. Present participle of lessen.
  2. A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.

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• diminution

  1. The act or process of diminishing; a lessening or reduction.
  2. The resulting reduction; decrease.
  3. Statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration, usually one-half, of the original.

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• decrease

  1. To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
  2. The act or process of decreasing.
  3. The amount by which something decreases.

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Shape

• construction

  1. The act or process of constructing.
  2. The art, trade, or work of building:
  3. A structure, such as a building, framework, or model.

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• style

  1. The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed:
  2. The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
  3. Sort; type:

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• fashion

  1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior:
  2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode:
  3. Manner or mode; way:

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An illustration

• plate

  1. A smooth, flat, relatively thin, rigid body of uniform thickness.
  2. A sheet of hammered, rolled, or cast metal.
  3. A very thin applied or deposited coat of metal.

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• engraving

  1. The art or technique of one that engraves.
  2. A design or text engraved on a surface.
  3. An engraved surface for printing.

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• printed picture

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A section

• portion

  1. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
  2. A part separated from a whole.
  3. A helping of food.

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• slice

  1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object:
  2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object:
  3. A portion or share:

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• segment

  1. Any of the parts into which something can be divided:
  2. The portion of a line between any two points on the line.
  3. The area bounded by a chord and the arc of a curve subtended by the chord.

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A piece of butchered meat

• chunk

  1. A thick mass or piece:
  2. A substantial amount:
  3. A strong stocky horse.

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• slice

  1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object:
  2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object:
  3. A portion or share:

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• piece

  1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion:
  2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole:
  3. An object that is one member of a group or class:

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*An insult

• snub

  1. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
  2. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
  3. To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.

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• affront

  1. To insult intentionally, especially openly.
  2. To meet defiantly; confront:
  3. To meet or encounter (another) face to face.

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• offense

  1. The act of causing anger, resentment, displeasure, or affront.
  2. The state of being offended.
  3. A violation or infraction of a moral or social code; a transgression or sin.

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To sever

• hack

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• carve

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• amputate

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• bisect

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• divide

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• skive

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• pare

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• shave

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• bite

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• flitch

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• facet

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• scissor

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• saber

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• behead

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• truncate

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• clip

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• quarter

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• chip

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• sliver

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• snip

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• lop off

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• cut off

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• cut through

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• cut-away

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• chisel

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• saw-through

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• rip

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• cut asunder

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• cut apart

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• sunder

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• rive

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• split

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• slit

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• chop

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• dice

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• trim

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• shear

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• sickle

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• scythe

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• reap

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• prune

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• mow

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• chop down

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• hew

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• fell

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• cleave

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• slice through

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• slice

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• separate

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To cut into

• lacerate

  1. To rip, cut, or tear.
  2. To cause deep emotional pain to; distress.
  3. Torn; mangled.

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• scarify

  1. To make shallow cuts in (the skin), as when vaccinating.
  2. To create a design on (the skin) by means of shallow cuts that are sometimes rubbed with a colorant or irritant to enhance the resulting scar tissue.
  3. To break up the surface of (topsoil or pavement).

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• gouge

  1. A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.
  2. A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.
  3. A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.

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• scotch

  1. To put an abrupt end to:
  2. To injure so as to render harmless.
  3. To cut or score.

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• mar

  1. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
  2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
  3. A disfiguring mark; a blemish.

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• wound

  1. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
  2. An injury to the feelings.
  3. To inflict wounds or a wound on.

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• rake

  1. A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.
  2. A device that resembles such an implement.
  3. To gather or move with or as if with a rake:

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• furrow

  1. A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow.
  2. A rut, groove, or narrow depression:
  3. A deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the forehead.

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• scratch

  1. To make a thin shallow cut or mark on (a surface) with a sharp instrument.
  2. To use the nails or claws to dig or scrape at.
  3. To rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching.

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• mark

  1. A visible trace or impression, such as a line or spot:
  2. A name, logo, or other indicator used to indicate ownership, origin, or level of quality.
  3. A notch made in an animal's ear or hide to indicate ownership.

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• carve into

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• score

  1. A usually numerical record of a competitive event:
  2. The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage:
  3. The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.

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• indent

  1. To set (the first line of a paragraph, for example) in from the margin.
  2. To cut or tear (a document with two or more copies) along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for establishing authenticity.
  3. To draw up (a document) in duplicate or triplicate.

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• nick

  1. A shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an edge or a surface:
  2. A prison or police station.
  3. A groove down the side of a piece of type used to ensure that it is correctly placed.

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• notch

  1. A V-shaped cut.
  2. Such a cut used for keeping a record.
  3. A narrow pass between mountains.

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• carve

  1. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice:
  2. To divide by parceling out:
  3. To cut into a desired shape; fashion by cutting:

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• slice

  1. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object:
  2. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object:
  3. A portion or share:

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• slash

  1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
  2. To make a gash or gashes in.
  3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:

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• incise

  1. To cut into, as with a sharp instrument:
  2. To engrave (designs or writing, for example) into a surface; carve.
  3. To engrave designs, writing, or other marks into.

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• gash

  1. To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.
  2. A long deep cut.
  3. A deep flesh wound.

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To penetrate

• puncture

  1. To pierce with a pointed object.
  2. To make (a hole) by piercing.
  3. To depreciate or deflate:

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• perforate

  1. To pierce, punch, or bore a hole or holes in; penetrate.
  2. To pierce or stamp with rows of holes, as those between postage stamps, to allow easy separation.
  3. To pass into or through something.

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• pierce

  1. To cut or pass through with or as if with a sharp instrument; stab or penetrate.
  2. To make a hole or opening in; perforate.
  3. To make a way through:

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To cross

• move across

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• pass-through

  1. An opening between two rooms, especially a shelved space between a kitchen and dining room that is used for passing food.
  2. A route through which something is permitted to pass.
  3. A financial security collateralized by a portfolio of mortgages or other loans, the income from which is passed through an intermediary before being distributed to investors in fixed payments.

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• divide

  1. To separate into parts, sections, groups, or branches:
  2. To form a border or barrier between:
  3. To sector into units of measurement; graduate:

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• intersect

  1. To cut across or through:
  2. To form an intersection with; cross:
  3. To cut across or overlap each other:

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To shorten

• delete

  1. To cancel, strike out, or make impossible to be perceived:
  2. To remove from a document or record:
  3. To remove (a file, for example) from a hard drive or other storage medium.

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• condense

  1. To make more dense or compact:
  2. To concentrate (a substance), especially by removing water.
  3. To make more concise; abridge or shorten:

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• abridge

  1. To reduce the length of (a written text); condense:
  2. To limit; curtail:

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• curtail

  1. To cut short or reduce:

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To reduce

• lessen

  1. To make less; reduce.
  2. To make little of; belittle.
  3. To become less; decrease:

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• diminish

  1. To make smaller or less; reduce or lessen.
  2. To detract from the authority, reputation, or prestige of:
  3. To cause to taper.

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• lower

  1. To look angry, sullen, or threatening.
  2. To appear dark or stormy, as the sky.
  3. A threatening, sullen, or angry look.

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To hit sharply

• whack

  1. To strike (someone or something) with a sharp blow; slap.
  2. To kill deliberately; murder.
  3. To deal a sharp, resounding blow.

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• chop

  1. To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an ax:
  2. To shape or form by chopping:
  3. To cut into small pieces:

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• hew

  1. To make or shape with or as if with an ax:
  2. To cut down with an ax; fell:
  3. To strike or cut; cleave.

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• strike

  1. To hit sharply, as with a hand, fist, weapon, or implement:
  2. To inflict (a blow).
  3. To penetrate or pierce:

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To castrate

• emasculate

  1. To castrate.
  2. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.
  3. Deprived of virility, strength, or vigor.

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• geld

  1. To castrate (a horse, for example).
  2. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.

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• alter

  1. To change or make different; modify:
  2. To adjust (a garment) for a better fit.
  3. To castrate or spay (an animal, such as a cat or a dog).

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*To ignore deliberately

• disregard

  1. To pay no attention or heed to; ignore:
  2. To show no evidence of attention concerning (something):
  3. To treat without proper respect or attentiveness.

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• slight

  1. Small in size, degree, or amount:
  2. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail:
  3. Of small importance or consideration; trifling:

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• snub

  1. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
  2. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
  3. To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.

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*To absent oneself

• duck

  1. Any of various wild or domesticated waterbirds of the family Anatidae, characteristically having a broad flat bill, short legs, and webbed feet.
  2. A female duck.
  3. The flesh of a duck used as food.

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• skip

  1. To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.
  2. To leap lightly about.
  3. To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet: