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RELATED WORDS : across across the board across the country across the nation brush cut budget cut clean cut come across crew cut cut cut away cut back cut corners cut down cut glass cut in cut into cut it out cut loose cut of beef cut of lamb cut of meat cut of mutton cut of pork cut of veal cut off cut out cut price cut rate cut short cut the mustard cut through cut to cut to ribbons cut up final cut get across go across jump cut lickety cut look across pass across pay cut price cut put across put one across rough cut run across salary cut spending cut tax cut

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb cut across has 3 senses

• cut across(v = verb.motion) cover, cross, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse - travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
is one way to go across, go through, pass
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

• cut across(v = verb.stative) Array - be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"
is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something

• cut across(v = verb.contact) crosscut - cut using a diagonal line; Array
is one way to cut
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

THESAURUS

cut across

bar, catercorner, chiasmal, chiasmic, chiastic, crisscross, cross, crossbar, crosscut, crossed, crossing, cruciate, cut, cut a corner, cut corners, cut crosswise, cut through, decussate, decussated, diagonalize, intercross, intersect, intersected, intersecting, lie across, make a beeline, secant, short-cut, slant across, slash, slash across, transverse, traverse

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cut across

Passage

VB pass, pass through, perforate, penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade, go through, go across, go over, pass over, cut across, ford, cross, pass and repass, work, make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way, make a passage form a passage, cut one's way through, find its way, find its vent, transmit, make way, clear the course, traverse, go over the ground.

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