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cutting across

cutting across is the present participle and gerund of cut across.

Meaning of cut across

Verb

cut across (third-person singular simple present cuts across, present participle cutting across, simple past and past participle cut across)

  1. To take a shortcut over or through (a place).
    Synonyms:
    cut through
  2. (broadly, figuratively) To go through figurative barriers; to go beyond an expected boundary.

Questions about cutting across

What is cutting across the present participle and gerund of?
Cutting across is the present participle and gerund of cut across.

Words near cutting across in the dictionary

  1. cutting a shine
  2. cutting a swath
  3. cutting a wide swath
  4. cutting a wide swathe
  5. cutting about
  6. cutting across
  7. cutting age
  8. cutting along
  9. cutting and carving
  10. cutting away
  11. cutting away one's soul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cutting across (page history and authors); cut across (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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