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cut up

VERB
  1. significantly cut up a manuscript
  2. cut to pieces
    Father carved the ham
  3. separate into isolated compartments or categories
    You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
  4. destroy or injure severely
    The madman mutilates art work
ADJECTIVE
  1. cut into pieces

How To Use cut up In A Sentence

  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • However, the duck confit was cut up in cold bits and enmeshed in a strange, oily construction of mushrooms and haricots verts.
  • Even Ethiopia, situated on a high plateau, which was cut up by mountains and vast canyons that made internal travel difficult, was accessible only from an exceptionally hot and unpleasant desert coast.
  • Cut skin and fat from the hams, pull meat off the bone and cut up or shred into pieces. Times, Sunday Times
  • I got/was cut up several times on the motorway this morning - I've never seen such dangerous driving!
  • He was mid thirties, with thinning, reddish blond hair which had been razor cut up the back. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • Cut up some pieces of plywood ahead of time to use as holding forms, and clamp every thing down.
  • Dislocation also occurred when Buddhist sutras and commentaries were cut up, dispersed, and sometimes reformatted in calligraphy model books (tekagami).
  • When Arthur Young wished to ascertain the relative proportions of cultivated and uncultivated land in France, he cut up a map of the country, and weighed them one against the other; but the platometer would have helped him to a more satisfactory conclusion. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852
  • a sufficient amount of rope the last bearskin was cut up into strips, as it was necessary to have nearly a hundred feet, and the bearskin was a much-needed addition to the small quantity of ramie cord which they had on hand. The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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