Cut Up

Definition: Cut Up

Cut Up

Adjective

1. Cut into pieces.

Verb

1. Cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham".

2. Destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work".

3. Separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!".

4. Significantly cut up a manuscript.

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

Synonyms: Cut Up

Dejection

Overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken; (mental suffering); cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn.

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.

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.

Disapprobation

Scoff at, point at; twit, taunt; (disrespect); sneer at; (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame; (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; Adjective: pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about.

Discontent

Cause discontent; Noun: dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out, disconcert; cut up; dishearten.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion.

Pain

Sadden; make unhappy; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash, afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.

Concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief; Noun: in tears; (lamenting); steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair.

Property

Assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth; money; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects.

Resentment

Verb: resent; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie; breathe revenge, cut up rough.

Crosswords: Cut Up

Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

You didn't cut up the Edsel (The Love Bug; writing credit: Gordon Buford; Don DaGradi)

It came in the mail today, it's uh, 72 long-stemmed red roses, one for each day that I've known and loved Emily, cut up into mulch (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Right now, some lucky bastard's headed for the Pacific, get put on some tropical island, surrounded by six naked native girls, helping him cut up coconuts so he can hand feed them to the flamingos (Band of Brothers; writing credit: Stephen Ambrose; Erik Jendresen)

Cut up, Maria (Mr. Jones; performing artist: Counting Crows)

His arms didn't move except when the wind cut up (The Scarecrow; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

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Books

• The Cut Up Sisters Color & Snip (Coloring Book Plus) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Celebrating a successful whaling season on the beach at Point Barrow. The whales were cut up and divided among the villagers. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Whaling in Eskimo land: a combined sport-festival--after the perilous sea hunt, they cut up blubber for the feast at the dance. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Thus conquerors swords often cut up governments by the roots, and mangle societies to pieces, separating the subdued or scattered multitude from the protection of, and dependence on, that society which ought to have preserved them from violence. (Second Treatise of Government)

For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeoisie amounts to this, that under the bourgeois regime a class is being developed, which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society. (reference)

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But now, poor girl, her peace is cut up for some time

Cut up them potatoes in the new fry pan.

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Expressions using "cut up": be cut up ♦ cut up didoes ♦ cut up fat ♦ cut up fine ♦ cut up rich ♦ cut up rough ♦ cut up ugly ♦ To cut up ♦ To cut up shines ♦ what one will cut up for. Additional references.

Albanian

copëtoj (break, break in pieces, chop, crack up, cut to pieces, disintegrate, dismember, dissect, fissure, fragment, joint, mangle, maul, rend, rip up, sever, sunder). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقطع (divided, division, part, passage, section), ‏مزق (disrupt, fracture, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, sever, shred, tatter, tear, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разрязвам (cut in, disarticulate, dissect, scissor, slit). (various references)

Chinese 

分割 (to break up, to cut up). (various references)

Czech

rozřezat (carve up, hash, shred, slash, slice), nařezat (towel). (various references)

Danish

skinneafsnit (cut up rail), skaere i stykker (to cut up into smaller pieces), afskalle krebsdyr og bløddyr (to cut up shell fish). (various references)

Dutch

afkammen (cry down, demolish, pull to pieces, run down, write down), afgeven op (cry down, demolish, pull to pieces, run down, write down), afbreken (break, break down, break off, cry down, cut, cut a connection, demolish, divide, pick, pluck, pull down, pull to pieces, run down, separate, share, stop, take down, tear off, write down). (various references)

Esperanto

diskreditigi (cry down, demolish, pull to pieces, run down, write down). (various references)

Finnish

silputa (chop), pienentää (chop, cut down, diminish, lessen, lower, make smaller, reduce, take in), paloitella (divide up, parcel out), leikellä (clip, cut, dissect), halkoa (cleave, split). (various references)

French

découper (cut), déchirer, aboyer � , abaisser. (various references)

German

zerteilen (dissipate, divide, joint, part, split up, to dissipate), zerstückeln (break up, carve up, dismember, divide up, fritter, hack about, hack up, hew, hew up), zerschneiden (carve, cut, cut in two, cut wrongly, fritter, lacerate, Pierce, to carve), zerschneide, zerlegen (analyse, analyze, break down, carve, carve up, decompose, depacketize, dismantle, disperse, dissect, divide, joint, quarter, quartering, reduce, separate, share, strip down, take apart, take down, take to pieces, to analyse, to carve, to decompose, to depacketize, to disassemble, to disjoint, to dismember, to disperse), zerkleinern (atomize, break up, chop up, crush, hackle, hash up, masticate, shred), in Mißkredit bringen (cry down, demolish, pull to pieces, run down, write down). (various references)

Greek 

κόβω σε μικρά κομμάτια, τεμαχίζω (carve, chop, dissect, fritter, parcel out, sliver). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחתך (engrave, slice up). (various references)

Hungarian

gyilkos kritika, felvág (cut open, saw up, slice, splurge, to get on one's high horse, to give oneself airs, to lance, to open up, to put it on, to put on airs, to put on dog, to ride one's high horse, to ride the high horse, to shoot a line, to show off, to side, to slit, to splurge, to sport, to talk large, to throw one's weight about, to throw one's weight around, to throw the bull, trip up), elkeserít (acerbate, embitter, make miserable, to embitter, to exacerbate, to exasperate, to sour). (various references)

Indonesian

cacah (amount, number). (various references)

Italian

trinciare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

千切る (to cut up fine, to pick), 割く (to alienate, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare), 切り込む (to attack, to cut into, to cut up, to raid), 切り裂く (to cut off, to cut up, to tear to pieces), 切り細裂く (to cut up small), 切り分かつ (to cut up), 切り分ける (to cut and discard, to cut up, to eliminate systematically). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりさく (to cut off, to cut up, to tear to pieces), きり�"まざく (to cut up small), きり�"む (to attack, to cut into, to cut up, to raid), きりわかつ (to cut up), きりわける (to cut and discard, to cut up, to eliminate systematically), さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, paling, pare, plan, plane, policy, reduce, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), ちぎる (to cut up fine, to pick, to pledge, to promise, to swear). (various references)

Manx

giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

romper (breach, break, break off, break up, cut off, disconnect, disrupt, fracture, open, part, pierce, rip, run, rupture, sever, snap, splinter, split, tear), rasgar (claw, drag out, gutter, lacerate, pull, rend, rip, rive, tatter, tear), fender (cleave, crack, cut, fissure, flaw, let by, nick, open, rend, rip, rive, sever, slit, split, sunder), esgarçar (rip), dilacerar (bite, lacerate, rip, tear, tousle), arrancar (abstract, disroot, drag out, extract, feather, force, jerk, lug, pick, pinch, pluck, pull, pull out, rip, start running, take away, tear off, tweezer, yank), abrir (barge, cut, dehisce, deploy, ditch, drift, frank, free, let by, open, open up, peck, rip, rive, spread, unbar, unclasp, unclench, unclose, undraw, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unseal, unstrap). (various references)

Romanian

critica sever (flay, score), vorbi de råu (cry down, demolish, pull to pieces, run down, write down), tãia în bucãţi (dismember, junk), ponegri (abuse, asperse, backbite, black, blacken, cry down, demolish, denigrate, mire, pull to pieces, run down, slander, write down), hãcui (chop, cut, hack, quarter), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), discredita (cry down, damage, decry, deface, demolish, depreciate, discredit, disparage, pull to pieces, run down, throw discredit on, undermine, write down), decupa (cut out), bufon (antic, buffoon, butt, fool, harlequin, jester, merry andrew, mugger, pantaloon, zany), afecta profund (impress). (various references)

Russian 

разрезать (bisect, cut, incise, rip, sever, skive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raseći (cut open). (various references)

Slovene

razkosana. (various references)

Spanish

cuartear (divide up, quarter), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, 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), cabrearse (get furious), trocear (to cut up into smaller pieces), sentirse troceado por, sentirse herido por, picar (bite, chop, dive, goad, grind, harass, hash, itch, jab, key in, lip, mince, needle, nibble, nip, pick, ping, pink, pique, pit, pound, prick, prickle, prod, punch, smart, stab, stick, sting), herir (bruise, cripple, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, offend, Pierce, pinch, pique, scorch, scotch, shoot, smite, spite, strike, touch, wound), hacer tonterías, hacer el bobo, dividir (break up, come between, cut, delimit, disjoint, disperse, divide, divide off, excrete, part, partition, portion, separate, share, sunder), desmenuzar (crumble, hackle, mince), afligirse (grieve, mourn, repine), acuchillar (gash, hack, knife, saber, sabre, slash). (various references)

Swedish

stycka (comminute, dismember, joint). (various references)

Turkish

yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), yerden yere vurmak (badmouth, chastise, slam), sarsmak (affect, afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, pique, scarify, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, touch, wound), doğramak (butcher, carve, chop, chop up, hack, hash, saw off, shred), davranmak (act, bear oneself, behave, comport oneself, conduct oneself, demean oneself, deport oneself, do by, do to, proceed, treat, use), biçmek (crop, cut, cut out, estimate, harvest, mow, reap, scythe, scythe down, slice), acımasızca eleştirmek (pull to pieces, scarify, slam), ölmek (belly up, bite the dust, cash in, choke, conk, croak, cross the styx, decease, depart, die, end, exit, expire, gasp one's life out, give up the ghost, go, go belly up, go hence, go the way of all flesh, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's chips, hop the twig, kick the bucket, pass away, pass in, pass out, pay one's debt to nature, peg out, perish, pip, pip out, pop off, return to dust, snuff it, succumb, yield up the ghost). (various references)

Turkmen 

яarmak (blow up, explode). (various references)

Ukrainian

розрізувати (open), розкритикувати. (various references)

Welsh

darnio (hack). (various references)

concisus, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet. (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

Direct Anagrams: cutup.

-2 letters: cup, cut, put, tup.

-3 letters: up, ut.

+1 letter: cutups.

+2 letters: cajuput, touchup.

+3 letters: cajuputs, cupulate, cutpurse, outpunch, punctual, puncture, touchups, uppercut.

+4 letters: buttercup, capitulum, cutpurses, punctuate, punctured, punctures, sculpture, supercute, teacupful, uncorrupt, upcountry, uppercuts.

+5 letters: apiculture, buttercups, eucalyptus, euphuistic, outproduce, outpunched, outpunches, punctually, punctuated, punctuates, punctuator, puncturing, sculptural, sculptured, sculptures, subproduct, superscout, teacupfuls, teacupsful, unpunctual.