cut sth out
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
(REMOVE)
C1 to remove something or form a shape by cutting, usually from paper or cloth:
She cut out his picture from the magazine.
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Cutting and stabbing
- abrasion
- bayonet
- carve
- carving
- chisel
- coppice
- cut sth down
- lance
- mow
- nick
- notch
- prune
- saw sth down
- scratch
- slash
- slice
- spike
- trim
- whittle
- woodcarving
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(STOP EATING)
C1 to stop eating or drinking something, usually to improve your health:
Since my heart attack, I've cut fatty foods out altogether.
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Abstaining and refraining
- abstain
- abstemious
- abstention
- abstinence
- back off
- fast
- give
- give (sth) up
- give up sth
- hors de combat
- keep
- keep (sb/sth) out of sth
- not be in the business of sth idiom
- refrain
- step back
- stop
- stop short of sth idiom
- swear off sth
- touch
- wouldn't touch sth with a barge pole idiom
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