cut
verb (TAKE SHORT WAY) /kʌt/ (present tense cutting, past tense and past participle cut)Definition
› [I usually + adv/prep] to go through or across a place, especially in order to get somewhere quickly: to cut through a passageCrossing and moving through cut a corner UK › to fail to keep to your own side of the road when going round a cornerDriving and operating road vehicles
(Definition of cut verb (TAKE SHORT WAY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- break through sth phrasal verb
- criss-cross verb
- cross verb (GO ACROSS)
- cut across sth phrasal verb (CROSS)
- ford verb
- intersect verb
- penetrate verb (MOVE INTO)
- penetration noun (MOVEMENT INTO)
- penetrative adjective (MOVEMENT INTO)
- percolate verb (LIQUID)
- pierce verb
- plough through sth phrasal verb
- rip through sth phrasal verb
- scythe verb
- span verb (BRIDGE)
- straddle verb
- thread your way through, between, etc. sth idiom
- traverse verb
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