cutten

Verb

cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past cut or (nonstandard, archaic) cutted, past participle cut or (nonstandard, archaic) cutted or (archaic) cutten)

1. (transitive) To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
   • You must cut this flesh from off his breast.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (transitive) To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
   • Would you please cut the cake?
3. (transitive) To form or shape by cutting.
   • I have three diamonds to cut today.
4. (slang, transitive) To wound with a knife.
   • We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.1990, Stephen Dobyns, The house on Alexandrine
5. (intransitive, transitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
   • The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
6. (ambitransitive, transitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

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