Cut Down

Definition: Cut Down

Cut Down

Adjective

1. Cut down; "the tree is down".

Verb

1. Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits".

2. Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete.

3. Cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet".

4. Intercept (a player), in baseball.

5. Cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass".

6. Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers".

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

Synonyms: Cut Down

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Killing

Saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Crosswords: Cut Down

We cut down my percentage---uh, cigar (Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il; writing credit: Luciano Vincenzoni; Sergio Leone)

Nobody really cares if a man's cut down from the front or the back as long as he deserves killin' (Hannah Lee; writing credit: MacKinlay Kantor; Alford Van Ronkel)

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

Books

• Cut Down to Size at High Noon: A Math Adventure (reference)

• Don't Cut Down This Tree (Voyages (Santa Rosa, Calif.).) (reference)

• Drink Wise: How to Quit Drinking or Cut Down (reference)

• How to Cut Down on Your Social Drinking (reference)

• Shrinklits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• There is Hope For a Tree Cut Down (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

"I've stopped smoking and cut down on alcohol - and feel so good!" / WHO/French National Committee Against Smoking photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

We want to cut down on non-essential activities ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company. Cook's livestock has been cut down considerably due to lack of feed. Little Sioux township, Woodbury County, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cultivating early cotton crop in Crittenden County, Arkansas. The next stage will be "cotton chopping" to cut down the weeds. Credit: Library of Congress.

A large lumber mill at Lacoochee, Florida. Surrounding forests have been ruthlessly cut down. Credit: Library of Congress.

Canadian scenes. Tree that a beaver cut down. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hawaii's conservation ethic : cut down, use less, save Hawaii's energy, don't waste, spread the word!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

His cheek bones were high and wide, and strong deep lines cut down his cheeks, in curves beside his mouth

Before I had done I was more the friend than the foe of the pine tree, though I had cut down some of them, having become better acquainted with it.

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Business

In the residential subsector, a growing tendency to economize and cut down on costs is affecting the U.S. share of the market, as buyers are opting for low cost brands, especially locally manufactured water heaters. (references)

A trend by the health financing system and the health suppliers to cut down costs by reducing the fees of imaging diagnosis -and other medical practices- has lead the diagnostic professionals to a difficult situation, and has concentrated the sector in fewer players providing imaging services. (references)

There are approximately 600 companies actively involved in agricultural production and many are in "parallel" activities such as seed production, technical formulation of agrochemicals, etc. Both international and local companies have cut down their distribution chains and have forced the distributors themselves to establish more direct contact with the final customer. (references)

Economic History

Morocco

Further liberalization of other sectors (flour and sugar) is likely to occur over the next few years as the GOM pursues its policy to cut down its budget deficit and improve rural development prospects. (references)

Canada

Technologies such as e-mail, the Internet, and videoconferencing, allow for self-paced delivery and long-distance delivery, distance interaction, and client review of work-in-progress, all of which cut down on or eliminate the need to travel to the client's location. (references)

Austria

While the law cut down on the overall number of immigration slots, other categories, such as key managers, intra-company transferees and management trainers - and their families - have benefited from a newly created category of temporary visas with no numerical limitations. (references)

Political Economy

THAILAND

More recently, the government has restricted the supply of baht at any one time to 50 million (about $1.12 million) per non-resident counter party (unless there is an underlying transaction requiring the currency) to cut down on offshore speculation. (references)

Trade

Argentina

The operations in FTZ in public warehouse are assigned to the following types of companies: (a) New companies that have never operated in foreign trade and wish to try this system until their transactions volume increases; (b) Companies that already operate in foreign trade and want to cut down their operating costs; (c) Companies with small volume of transactions (purchases and sales), which make it excessively burdensome to maintain their own storage premises of 600 m2. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cut down": cut down on ♦ cut down on smth. ♦ cut down prices ♦ cut down with an axe ♦ To cut down. Additional references.

Albanian

shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), pres pemën, pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقص (allow, cut, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏قطع شجرة الخ, ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), ‏صرع (bring down, bump, floor, knock down, pick off, poleaxe, strike, stun). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съсичам (pole-ax, sabre), скъсявам (abbreviate, contract, curtail, retract, shorten), свалям обесен от въжето, отсичам (chop, cut off, cut short, decide firmly, hew, intercept, lop, slice off, snap, strike off, stump), окастрям (emasculate, pare off, prune, truncate), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), покосявам (decimate, mow down, strike down). (various references)

Chinese 

芟 (mow, scythe). (various references)

Czech

zkrátit (abbreviate, abridge, Bob, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut short, dock, reduce, shorten), snížit (abate, bring down, cut, cut back, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lessen, lop off, pull down, put down, reduce, whittle away), skácet (hack down, hew, overturn, upset), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish), omezit (abate, circumscribe, confine, constrict, curb, curtail, cut back, decrease, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate, trammel). (various references)

Dutch

gelijk afsnijden (cut the margin of), de randen afsnijden (cut the margin of). (various references)

Finnish

supistaa (abbreviate, abridge, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, limit, reduce, restrict), pienentää (chop, cut up, diminish, lessen, lower, make smaller, reduce, take in), niukentaa (curtail, reduce). (various references)

French

couper (cut, cut away, cut back, cut off), se restreindre, réduire (curtail, cut), faire diminuer, diminuer, bûcher, abréger (curtail, cut short), abattre (cut off), émarger (cut the margin of). (various references)

German

zusammenstreichen (prune, slash), verknappen (cut back, run short), verkürzen (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut, cut short, decrease, end, foreshorten, narrow, reduce, shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to shorten), umgehaut, sich einschränken (cut back, retrench), schneiden (bite, carve, chop, clip, cross, crosscutting, cut, cutting, cutting edges, edit, finesse, harvest, incise, intersect, lance, meet, mow, Nick, pare, reap, scissor, shave, shear, slice, snick, snub, to bite, to clip, to cut, to cutting edges, to scissor, to slice, trim), niederstrecken (lay down), holzen (fell timber, hack, lumber, play badly), fällen (chop down, come to, drop, fell, hand down, hew down, lower, make, overthrow, pass, precipitate, pronounce), einschränken (confine, cut back, impinge, limit, moderate, narrow down, pare down, qualify, reduce, restrain, restrict, retrench, stint, to retrench, to stint), beschneiden (circumcise, clip, curtail, cut, cut back, dress, lop, pare, prune, to clip, trim, trimming). (various references)

Greek 

κόβω (carve, chop, clip, cut, cut out, fell, nip, pluck, sever, shear, slacken), κόπτω τα άκρα σελίδας,την σμικρύνω (cut the margin of), περιορίζω (abridge, circumscribe, confine, constrict, contain, cramp, crib, inhibit, limit, localise, localize, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scant, scotch, stint, straiten), λιγοστεύω (cut down on, drop away, drop off, fall off, make inroads into). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקצץ (chop, clip, hack, hackle, lop, maul, prune, scale down, slash, whittle down), לכרות (ablate, hew, lop, resect), לכסוח (clear, mow), לכסח (cut off), ל�"פחית (abate, abridge, decrease, devaluate, diminish, lower, reduce, remit, step down, subtract, take away), ל�"רו�' (kill, murder, slay), לברא (deforest). (various references)

Hungarian

levág (amputate, butcher, cut off, exscind, hewed, hewn, immolate, lop, resect, shear, slaughter, to chop off, to crop, to cut away, to cut down, to excise, to hew, to hew away, to hew down, to lop away, to nick sy for sg, to nip, to pare away, to shave, to shave off, to slaughter, to slice off, to sting sy for sg, truncate), lerövidít (cut short, detruncate, short cut, to abridge, to curtail, to cut down, to nick). (various references)

Indonesian

merambah (clear away). (various references)

Italian

tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, mow, reap, short cut, slice, snip, trim), sgominare, ridurre i margini (cut the margin of), ridurre (abandon ship, abate, abbreviate, abridge, adapt, Bate, be reduced, bring down, curtail, cut, decrease, depress, drive, pare down, prune, rebate, reduce, reduce oneself, remit, shorten, shrink, turn into), raffilare (cut the margin of, dress type, trim), limitare (abridge, bound, confine, curtail, limit, narrow, rein in, restrict, shrink, stint, straiten, surround), inabilitare (disable, incapacitate), falciare (mow, scythe), abbattere (bowl over, break, break down, deject, demolish, down, fall, fell, flatten, knock down, lay, lose heart, overthrow, put down, put to sleep, rase, raze, shoot down, smash down, smash in, throw). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刪 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さ�" (a style of Chinese poetry, acid, caption, legend, legend or inscription on a picture, three). (various references)

Manx

injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), buinn (cut, harvest, lift, mow, mowing, reap, reaping, shear, shearing). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut off, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle), marginar (margin, rim, skirt), diminuir (abridge, assuage, commute, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dwindle, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, whittle), deitar abaixo. (various references)

Romanian

secera (crop, harvest, mow, mow down, reap), doborî (beat, bring, bring low, fell, floor, grass, ground, hew down, knock down, overcome, overpower, prostrate, smash, strike down, tip). (various references)

Russian 

сразить (smite), урезать (slashed), ушивать, снижать (abase, abate, cut, fall back, lower, mark down, reduce, slowed), рубить (chisel, chop, cut, fall, fell, hack, hackle, hew, mangle, mince), погубить (diddle). (various references)

Scottish

speal (a scythe, scythe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umeriti (moderate), ubiti (assassinate, bag, bump off, do away, do away with, kill, make away, murder, put away, slay, wipe out, zap), smanjiti (abate, curtail, cut back, decrease, diminish, downsize, lessen, mitigate, pare down, rebate, reduce, slash, whittle away, whittle down), pokositi (mow down, reap, scythe). (various references)

Spanish

cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), cesar la vida, talar (cut, fell), reducir (abridge, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down on, decrease, dock, lessen, lower, narrow, reduce, set, shorten, step down, weaken), recortar el margen (cut the margin of), rebajar (abase, abate, bring down, cheapen, cut, debase, decry, deduct, deflate, demean, depress, discount, dismount, dock, gear down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, mark down, rebate, reduce, take away, take from, take off, talk down, write down), matar (butcher, carry off, destroy, dispose of, do in, homicide, kill, knock off, lay, liquidate, murder, postmark, pot, shoot, slaughter, slay, swat), marginar (exclude, freeze out, reject), escatimar (be sparing off, curtail, give grudgingly, grudge, pinch, scant, scrimp, skimp, spare, stint), disminuir (abate, assuage, attenuate, curtail, damp, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, drop off, fall, fall away, fall off, lighten, like, lower, put down, reduce, relieve, subside, weaken). (various references)

Swedish

skära ner (ax, axe, condense, cut, cut back, prune, whittle down), knappa, hugga ner (fell), fälla (bleed, bring down, cast, catch, condemn, convict, couch, deposit, drop, fell, hand down, hew down, kill, let fall, level, lose, lower, lumber, overthrow, pass, pitfall, precipitate, pronounce, shed, slay, tilt, trap, weep), döda (dispatch, kill, pip, put to death, slay, zap). (various references)

Turkish

kısaltmak (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, clip, compress, curtail, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, retrench, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up), indirim yaptırmak, devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), boydan boya kesmek, ağaç kesmek (fell trees, lumber), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyrkmak (slaughter). (various references)

Ukrainian

рубати (chaff, chop, fell, hack, hackle, hew, mangle), зрубувати. (various references)

abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, concido, rescindentes, succidam, succidamque, succidat, succidatur, succide, succident, succidentur, succiderunt, succideruntque, succides, succidetis, succidi, succidisset, succidisti, succidit, succidite, succiditur, succisa, succisi, succisione, succisum, succisus. (various references)

aheawan, forheawan, fyllan, heawan. (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Cut Down" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cutdown. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cutdown.

-2 letters: count, donut, wound.

-3 letters: down, duct, dunt, nowt, town, unco, undo, unto, wont.

-4 letters: cod, con, cot, cow, cud, cut, doc, don, dot, dow, dun, duo, nod, not, now, nut, oud, out, own, tod, ton, tow, tun, two, udo, won, wot, wud.

-5 letters: do, no, nu, od, on, ow, to, un, ut, wo.

+1 letter: cutdowns.

+2 letters: countdown, downcourt, touchdown.

+3 letters: countdowns, touchdowns.

+4 letters: countrywide, woodcutting.

+5 letters: counterworld, woodcuttings.