单词 | cutting |
释义 | cutting —cuttingly, adv. —cuttingness, n. /kut"ing/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that cuts. 2. something cut, cut off, or cut out. 3. Hort. a piece, as a root, stem, or leaf, cut from a plant and used for propagation. 4. something made by cutting, as a recording. 5. Chiefly Brit. a clipping from a newspaper, magazine, etc. 6. Brit. a trenchlike excavation, esp. through a hill, as one made in constructing a highway. adj. 7. that cuts; penetrating or dividing by, or as if by, a cut. 8. piercing, as a wind. 9. wounding the feelings severely; sarcastic. [1350-1400; ME; see CUT, -ING1, -ING2] Syn. 9. caustic, biting, mordant, acid, sardonic. |
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