cut up

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive, literally) To cut upward.
2. (transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
3. (informal, transitive) To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To distress mentally or emotionally.
5. (dated, idiomatic, transitive) To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.
6. (idiomatic, intransitive) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
7. (Ireland, UK, idiomatic, transitive) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
8. (intransitive) To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
9. (dated, slang) To divide into portions well or badly; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc.
10. (informal) Comprise a particular selection of runners.

Adj

1. Having been cut into smaller pieces.
2. Wounded with multiple lacerations.
3. (Australia, UK, idiomatic) Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.
4. (informal, slang) Muscular and lean.

Synonyms

cut

carve

chop

slice

cut down

dice

cut off

break

divide

cut into pieces

kill

🔪🩸👤

cut out

carve up

cut into

slit up

butcher

slaughter

saw

🪚

compartmentalize

flay

compartmentalise

diced

cut open

mutilate

slice up

mangle

cleave

destroy

hack

minced

tear to pieces

degrade

decrease

debase

cut through

chop up

chapfallen

downcast

distressed

besides

allot

dismember

disjointed

discredit

cut away

dispirited

disarticulate

diminish

crummy

behead

Translations

découper

dépecer

cortar

couper

trinciare

aufschneiden

découpé

abaisser

zerschneiden

trinchar

tagliare

couper en morceaux

tallar

en petits morceaux

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