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Cut out   /kət aʊt/   Listen
Cut out

verb
1.
Delete or remove.  "Cut out the newspaper article"
2.
Form and create by cutting out.
3.
Cut off and stop.  Synonym: cut off.
4.
Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out.  Synonym: scratch out.
5.
Intercept (a player).  Synonym: cut down.
6.
Cease operating.
adjective
1.
Having been cut out.





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"Cut out" Quotes from Famous Books



... ladies," said Mrs. Bobbsey, "we have ready some blue gingham aprons. You see how they are cut out; two seams, one at each side, then they are to be closed down the back. There will be a pair of strings on each apron, and you may begin by pressing down a narrow hem on these strings. We will not need to baste them, just press them down with ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Country • Laura Lee Hope
... Chinese who were going to war with the Lolos (who are one of the Eighteen tribes on the borders of Thibet and China) tied the Lolo hostage to a bench, and, having cut his throat, caught the blood which dripped from it. Into this they dipped their flag, and then cut out the heart and liver, which the officers ate, while the men ate ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
... fail,' Ernest answered with a heavy heart, 'I can only die once; and after all every man can do no more than till to the best of his ability the niche in nature that he finds already cut out for ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... clinging to the rock, fell upon the ground in a burning mass. A cloud of smoke and dust arose, and when it had cleared away the captain and his party saw upon the perpendicular side of the rock, which was now revealed to them as if a veil had been torn away from in front of it, an enormous face cut out of the ...
— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton
... interesting book, "A Thousand Miles up the Nile," thus speaks of it: "Every one knows how this scarab was adopted by the Egyptians as an emblem of creative power and the immortality of the soul; it is to be seen in the wall-sculptures, on the tombs, cut out in precious stones and worn as an ornament, buried in the mummy-cases, and a figure of the beetle forms a hieroglyph, and represents a word signifying 'To be and to transform.' If actual worship was not paid ...
— Wild Nature Won By Kindness • Elizabeth Brightwen


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