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THESAURUS

RELATED WORDS : answer back back back and fill back and forth back away back brace back breaker back burner back channel back circle back country back door back down back end back entrance back exercise back fire back judge back matter back number back of beyond back off back out back pack back porch back room back saw back scratching back seat back stairs back street back talk back to back back tooth back up back way beat back bounce back break one's back bring back brush cut budget cut buy back call back carry back ceding back choke back clean cut come back come back at coming back crew cut cut cut across cut away 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 date back die back double back draw back drive back drop back fall back fat back feed back fight back final cut flanker back flash back force back from way back get back get back at give back go back go back on go back over hang back hark back hold back jump cut keep back kick back knock back lean back lickety cut look back move back move back and forth pat on the back pay back pay cut paying back play back price cut pull back push back put back rear back relation back roll back rough cut running back salary cut send back set back shrink back sink back sit back slide back slip back snap back spending cut stand back strike back take back talk back tax cut think back throw back thrust back toss back travel back and forth trim back turn back water back watteau back win back

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb cut back has 4 senses

• cut back(v = verb.motion) flash back - return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"
is one way to return
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

• cut back(v = verb.change) bring down, cut, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Derived form noun cutback₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• cut back(v = verb.contact) clip, crop, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
is one way to thin out
Sample sentence:
They cut back the trees

• cut back(v = verb.change) curb, curtail, restrict - place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"
is one way to circumscribe, confine, limit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

THESAURUS

cut back

abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bob, boil down, capsulize, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, curtail, curtail expenses, cut, cut corners, cut down, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, diminish, dock, downgrade, elide, epitomize, foreshorten, lessen, lower, mark down, mow, nip, pare, pare down expenses, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, roll back, scale down, shave, shear, shorten, simplify, slash, slow down, snub, step down, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take a reef, take from, take in, telescope, trim, truncate, tune down

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