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To cut (a way or passage). Also figurative.
to carve out. transferred. (Sometimes also in other senses, esp. senses 1and 4.)
transitive. To make (one's way, a path) through a place, out of a situation, etc., by chopping and cutting with rough heavy blows; (in passive, of a…
transitive. To clear, cut through, force (a path, way).