trimming, slashing, slicing, chopping, lowering, reducing, laying, paring, lopping, scaling, curtailing, eliminating, whittling, squeezing, snipping, axing, putting, ripping, halving, downsizing, furloughing, pulling, streamlining, shutting, boosting, dropping, decreasing, whacking, removing, jettisoning, upping, sawing, curbing, saving, shedding, shaving, rationalizing, phasing, raising, shuttering, shrink, reining, reorganizing, severing, ditching, scraping, tearing, thinning, yanking, peeling, stripping, busting, retrenching, restructuring, slimming, plucking, slitting, falling, scrimping, shortening, economizing, pruning, suspending, wiping, canceling, switching, balancing, limiting, pinching, chipping, clipping, tightening, skimping, shifting, turning, gutting, forgoing, sticking, pushing, chiseling, sharpening, slowing, crimping, nailing, stapling, shoring, doubling, hurting, consolidating, mowing, burying, sloughing, reshaping, chamfering, flattening, chewing, sheering, reinstating, plowing, sacrificing, discontinuing, gluing, weeding, felling, polishing, burning, cut, copying, grinding, combing, dusting, lifting, brushing, digging, hoeing, planing, ploughing, containment, diversionary, drawing, harvesting, retrenchment, corrective, policing, testing, innovative, tuning, building, gathering, grading, planning, recovery

clip, clipping, dissection, gash, haircut, incision, nick, notch, pruning, quickset, scission, section, severance, severing, shearing, slash, slashing, slicing, snick, snip, trim, trimming

., ablated, abscission, amsterdam, attractable, axe head, ax head, backsword, beheading, bezel, bit, blade, blade bit, bolt cutter, brand, broadax, broadaxe, broadsword, bullnose, bullnosed plane, burr, butcher knife, butter knife, buzz saw, callistephus chinensis, can opener, capital of the netherlands, carboloy, carnassial tooth, carpenter's saw, carving, cheese cutter, china aster, chisel, chopped, chop off, cigar cutter, circular saw, cleave, clipper, clippers, clipping, common ax, common axe, compass saw, coping saw, cost cutting, cross-sectiona, cross-sectional, cross bit, cross section, cut, cutlery, cutter, cutthroat, cutting-edge, cutting angle, cutting edge, cutting implement, cutting off, cutting room, cutting tool, cutworm, cut away, cut glass, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut short, dayton ax, dayton axe, decapitation, delilah, deracination, die, disembowelment, displeasingly, dissection, double-bitted ax, double-bitted axe, downed, drill, dull, dutch capital, eating utensil, economic strangulation, edged, edgeless, edger, edge tool, ellipse, enucleation, evisceration, excise, excision, excommunication, expansion bit, expansive bit, extirpation, family megachilidae, felled, fireman's ax, fireman's axe, fishtail bit, foliation, gash, gashed, gene-splicing, genetic engineering, genus megachile, glass cutter, gouge, groover, grooving, guillotine, hacksaw, haircare, haircut, hairdressing, hair care, hamstring, hand-hewn, handsaw, hand ax, hand axe, haying, haying time, haymaking, hewn, high-speed steel, hock, horizontal section, hot-work steel, ice ax, ice axe, incise, incision, incisive, incisor, indentation, jag, keen, keyhole saw, knife, knifelike, knife edge, lance, lapidarist, lapidary, lard oil, linoleum cutter, linoleum knife, load-shedding, logging, lop off, lumbering, machete, machine tool, manicure, matchet, megachile, megachilidae, metal saw, oval, oxyacetylene, panga, paper cutter, papyrus, pedicure, piercing, piolet, pipe cutter, plane section, plough, plow, power saw, price cut, price cutting, razor edge, re-afforest, re-afforestation, reaping hook, reap hook, recombinant dna technology, reforestation, rifling, ripping chisel, ripsaw, rough, router, router plane, runcible spoon, saw, sawing machine, scission, scythe, second growth, section, severed, sharp, sheared, shearing, shredded, sickle, slash, slashed, slice, sliced, slicer, slicing, snips, spade bit, splitsaw, steel, stellite, strabotomy, straight razor, surgical incision, sword, tap, tile cutter, tinsnips, tin opener, tool steel, trepan, trim, trimming, truncate, truncation, truncation error, turn, uncropped, uncut, western ax, western axe, wire cutter

cards, card game

creating by removal, diluting, dilution, division, excerpt, extract, opening, part, piece, selection, shortening, stalk, stem

bleak, carving, clipping, cold, cut, cutting off, edged, film editing, keen, knifelike, newspaper clipping, piercing, press clipping, press cutting, raw, sharp, slip, stabbing, stinging, thinning, unkind