Cut - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 29/03/2026

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Cut.

7 letter answer(s) to cut

ABRIDGE
  1. Abridge is a village in Essex, England. It is on the River Roding, 16 miles (26 km) southwest of the county town of Chelmsford.
  2. lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"
  3. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
SHEARED
  1. (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared lamb"
  2. become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
  3. cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb"
  4. cut with shears; "shear hedges"
  5. having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep"
  6. shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
SLASHED
  1. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply; "the slashed prices attracted buyers"
  2. beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
  3. cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
  4. cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
  5. cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
  6. having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric; "a slashed doublet"; "slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining"
  7. move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
  8. patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes; "brown iris...slashed with yellow"- Willa Cather

3 letter answer(s) to cut

AXE
  1. an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
  2. chop or split with an ax; "axe wood"
  3. terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
HEW
  1. make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"
  2. strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"
LOP
  1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
  2. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
MOW
  1. a loft in a barn where hay is stored
  2. cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass"
  3. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"
SAW
  2. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
  3. a power tool for cutting wood
  4. accompany or escort; "I'll see you to the door"
  5. be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;
  6. come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
  7. cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace"
  8. date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!"
  9. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
  10. deliberate or decide; "See whether you can come tomorrow"; "let's see--which movie should we see tonight?"
  11. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have be

4 letter answer(s) to cut

AXED
  1. chop or split with an ax; "axe wood"
  2. terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
DELE
  1. Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus:
ETCH
  1. carve or cut a design or letters into; "engrave the pen with the owner's name"
  2. carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter"
  3. cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible; "a face etched with pain"; "the leafless branches etched against the sky"
  4. make an etching of; "He etched her image into the surface"
  5. selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons
GASH
  1. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
  2. a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
  3. a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
  4. cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
HEWN
  1. cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"
  2. make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"
  3. strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"
MOWN
  1. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of newly mown hay"
  2. cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass"
  3. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"
OMIT
  1. leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
  2. prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
SAWN
  1. cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace"
SLIT
  1. a depression scratched or carved into a surface
  2. a long narrow opening
  3. a narrow fissure
  4. cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim"
  5. make a clean cut through; "slit her throat"
  6. obscene terms for female genitals
SNIP
  1. a bargain
  2. a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
  3. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
  4. sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
  5. the act of clipping or snipping

5 letter answer(s) to cut

CARVE
  1. cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"
  2. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"
  3. form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice"
HEWED
  1. Past tense of to hew: axed, chopped
KNIFE
  1. a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
  2. any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
  3. edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
  4. use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"
MOWED
  1. Cut with a mower, as in "she mowed the lawn"
SEVER
  1. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
  2. set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
SHARE
  2. a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil
  3. any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate;
  4. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;
  5. communicate;
  6. give out as one's portion or share
  7. r"
  8. the allotment of some amount by dividing something;
  9. the part played by a person in bringing about a result;
  10. use jointly or in common
SHEAR
  1. (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"
  2. a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
  3. become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
  4. cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb"
  5. cut with shears; "shear hedges"
  6. shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
SLASH
  1. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
  2. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
  3. a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
  4. an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
  5. beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
  6. cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
  7. cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
  8. cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
  9. move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
SZSEL

6 letter answer(s) to cut

CLEAVE
  1. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
  2. make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"
  3. separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"
  4. Sever
  5. Split
  6. To hew
DELETE
  1. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"
  2. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
  3. wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
FELLED
  1. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
  2. pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"
  3. sew a seam by folding the edges
IGNORE
  1. bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"
  2. be ignorant of or in the dark about
  3. fail to notice
  4. give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"
  5. refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"
INCISE
  1. make an incision into by carving or cutting
LESION
  1. an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
  2. any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part
LOPPED
  1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
  2. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

8 letter answer(s) to cut

DECREASE
  1. a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  2. a process of becoming smaller or shorter
  3. decrease in size, extent, or range;
  4. Diminish
  5. make smaller; "
  6. the act of decreasing or reducing something
  7. the amount by which something decreases
  8. to get smaller
INCISION
  1. a depression scratched or carved into a surface
  2. the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
LESSENED
  1. decrease in size, extent, or range;
  2. decreased in severity; made less harsh
  3. impaired by diminution
  4. make smaller; "
  5. wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

9 letter answer(s) to cut

REDUCTION
  1. any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
  2. the act of decreasing or reducing something
  3. the act of reducing complexity
SHORTENED
  1. become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
  2. cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
  3. cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
  4. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
  5. make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
  6. make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
  7. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
  8. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
  9. with parts removed; "the drastically cut

Frequently asked questions about ‘Cut’

What's the best solution for Cut?

The most likely answer for the crossword clue Cut is AXE. Other possible answers include ABRIDGE, AXED, CARVE, CLEAVE, DECREASE, DELE, DELETE, ETCH, FELLED, GASH, HEW, HEWED, HEWN, IGNORE, INCISE, INCISION, KNIFE, LESION, LESSENED, LOP, LOPPED, MOW, MOWED, MOWN, OMIT, REDUCTION, SAW, SAWN, SEVER, SHARE, SHEAR, SHEARED, SHORTENED, SLASH, SLASHED, SLIT, SNIP, SZSEL.

How many solutions are there for Cut?

We have found 39 possible answers for the crossword clue Cut.

Which crosswords feature clues like Cut?

Clues like Cut often appear in daily crosswords from publications such as The Observer Speedy, Daily Mail Cryptic, Mail on Sunday, Financial Times Daily, Daily Mail Quick, among others.

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Cancel11
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Can8
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Rent8
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Strike8
Strike out8
Bargain7
Bypass7
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Spotted7
Apportion6
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Cold-shoulder6
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