transitive. To divide into two or more parts with a sharp-edged instrument; to sever. Used simply of cord, string, and the like, and of bread…

To cleave, divide (something) with a knife, weapon, etc. Obsolete.

transitive. To pierce, cut into (in fighting or carving); to cut or break into, so as to use.

transitive. To cut to pieces, cut up; to cut off.

transitive. To cut up; to cut off or away. In later use chiefly Ophthalmology: to perform discission upon (the lens of the eye, a cataract…

transitive. To cut (something) into pieces; to break (something) apart by cutting; to cut up, divide.

transitive. To cut in two, sever, as with scissors: chiefly with reference to severing the thread of life. Now rare.

transitive. To cut asunder, cut in pieces, divide by cutting. literal and figurative. (Now more or less associated with 2 and 3.)

figurative. To divide, separate, sever.

transitive. To cut asunder, to separate by cutting.

To cut; to form, or sever, by cutting. Scottish and northern dialect.