Cut Into

Definition: Cut Into

Cut Into

Verb

1. Turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cut Into

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Crosswords: Cut Into

The NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN traversing the cut into Lake Union from Puget Sound. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Lumber manufacture. Slip man pushing timber logs into the bull chain conveyor with the aid of a pike pole. This conveyor will haul the logs to the saws where they will be cut into lumber. Boise Payette Lumber Company, Boise, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Meats are hung in chilling room when first brought in, then cut into roasts, etc., and frozen. Cold storage lockers, Casselton, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Road cut into the barren hills which lead into Emmett, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This grating, a sort of door cut into the bottom of the quai opened upon the river as much as upon the beach

The sun cut into the shade of the truck as noon approached

In the first course there was a shoulder of mutton, cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Food can be cut into small pieces, softened, or pureed to ease swallowing and prevent choking. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Port operations at Salalah in Oman could in future begin to cut into Dubai's cargo volume. (references)

Taiwan

This trend has driven imports to rise faster than exports and has cut into Taiwan's global trade surplus. (references)

Venezuela

Venezuela was the leading overall agricultural market in South America for the United States in 1997, a close contender in 1998 and 1999. Most importantly, Venezuela broke away in 1999 as the number one U.S. export market in South America for consumer-ready agricultural products, this despite a recession that cut into overall food consumption. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

In March 2000, a judge sentenced two prisoners convicted of killing almost 100 children to be executed by having their bodies cut into 100 and 98 pieces, respectively, and then having the pieces dissolved in acid. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cut into": cut into a conversation ♦ cut into cubes ♦ cut into pieces ♦ cut into slices ♦ cut into two ♦ to cut into. Additional references.

Afrikaans

aanbreek (begin, break, break into, broach, commence, cut, start). (various references)

Albanian

grij (canker, chew, cut into pieces, grate, grind, hash, mince, scour, scrape, shred). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شرح (account for, anatomize, be explained, caption, commentary, cut into slices, demonstrate, demonstration, dissect, elucidate, elucidation, explain, explanation, explication, exposition, expound, puzzle out, represent, slice, sort out). (various references)

Czech

zaříznout do èeho. (various references)

Danish

ved den dykkerbetjente teknik til at draebe en boring,kan dykkere skaere ind i foringsroerene paa en ukontrolleret boring og derefter skaere ind i og anbringe en prop,der lukker det produktionsroer,som giver naering til branden (and then tap into and plug off the tubing that sustains the fire, divers can cut into the casing strings of a wild well, in the diver-activated well killing technique), laengder (glass cut into lengths), glas tilskaeret (glass cut into lengths), afspaending og efterkomprimering (concrete wearing course to be cut into smaller slabs and the joints filled). (various references)

Dutch

beginnen te snýden, aansnýden (bring up), aanbreken (begin, break into, broach, commence, start). (various references)

Esperanto

ektranĉi, ekkonsumi (break into, broach). (various references)

French

scier, entamer (to cut). (various references)

German

sich drängeln in, fallen in, einschneiden (carve, cut in, gash, incise, nick, notch), einbiegen in, anbrechen (begin, break into, broach, close in, commence, crack, dawn, fall, open, start). (various references)

Greek 

στην τεχνική που συνίσταται στο να θανατώσει ένα πηγάδι με τη βοήθεια των δυτών,οι δύτες μπορούν να κόψουν τους διάφορους σωλήνες επενδύσε� (divers can cut into the casing strings of a wild well), γυαλί κομμένο κατά μήκος (glass cut into lengths). (various references)

Hungarian

szabdal (to cut into pieces, to cut into ribbons, to cut into shreds, to cut into strips, to slash, to slash into ribbons, to slash into shreds, to slash into strips). (various references)

Indonesian

beler. (various references)

Italian

vetro tagliato a misura (glass cut into lengths), nella tecnica di spegnimento di un pozzo a mezzo di sommozzatori,questi possono praticare dei tagli nelle colonne del casing del pozzo eruttivo,filettare e tappare il tubing attraverso cui viene alimentato l'incendio (and then tap into and plug off the tubing that sustains the fire, divers can cut into the casing strings of a wild well, in the diver-activated well killing technique), esecuzione di giunti e sigillatura su carreggiata in calcestruzzo (concrete wearing course to be cut into smaller slabs and the joints filled). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'に切る (to cut into squares), �'切り (cut into cubes), 奴豆腐 (cold tofu cut into cubes), 口�'挟む (to cut into, to interject), 切り込む (to attack, to cut into, to cut up, to raid), 切り入る (to cut into, to raid), 切れ込む (to cut into). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりいる (to cut into, to raid), きり�"む (to attack, to cut into, to cut up, to raid), きれ�"む (to cut into), くち�'はさむ (to cut into, to interject), かくぎり (cut into cubes), かくにきる (to cut into squares), やっ�"どうふ (cold tofu cut into cubes). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay intoay.(various references)

Portuguese

criação de juntas em pavimento rígido (concrete wearing course to be cut into smaller slabs and the joints filled), vidro cortado nas dimensões próprias (glass cut into lengths). (various references)

Romanian

dumica (chop up, crumb, crumble, cut into pieces, destroy, dismember). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaparati, zadreti (encroach), zacepiti (tear slightly), načeti (bite into). (various references)

Spanish

encentar, decentar (begin, commence, start). (various references)

Swedish

skära in (cut in, incise), blanda sig i (butt in, cut in, intermeddle, join in, meddle in). (various references)

Turkish

karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern, concern oneself, cut in, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meddle, meld, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, tamper, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, welter, whirl), dalmak (barge, bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, conk, contemplate, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into). (various references)

Ukrainian

врізатися (burn into). (various references)

accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit, incidam, incidamque, incidas, incidat, incidebant, incidemus, incident, incidentes, incidere, incideremus, inciderent, inciderit, inciderunt, incidet, incidetis, incidi, incidissemus, incidisti, incidit, inciditque, incidunt, incisus, mordeant, mordeat, mordebit, mordebunt, mordens, mordent, mordetis, morsu, morsus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: count, cutin, ontic, tinct, tonic, tunic.

-3 letters: cion, coin, coni, icon, into, otic, tint, toit, tout, unci, unco, unit, unto.

-4 letters: con, cot, cut, ion, nit, not, nut, out, tic, tin, ton, tot, tui, tun, tut.

-5 letters: in, it, no, nu, on, ti, to, un, ut.

+2 letters: actuation, outacting.

+3 letters: actuations, constitute, contiguity, continuant, continuate, continuity, contribute, coquetting, cunctation, eructation, instructor, punctation, truncation, urtication.

+4 letters: astronautic, commutating, commutation, computation, confutation, confutative, constituent, constituted, constitutes, contentious, continuants, continuator, contributed, contributes, contributor, counterfeit, countersuit, cultivation, cunctations, destruction, eructations, fluctuation, instruction, instructors, intercounty, micturition, multicounty, obstructing, obstruction, occultation, outbitching, outcatching, outcheating, outcounting, outdistance, outmatching, outpitching, outtricking, outwatching, overcutting, punctations, punctuation, reluctation, rustication, subtraction, truncations, tumefaction, uncommitted, unpatriotic, urtications, woodcutting.