razor-blade
razor-blade verb: to cut or scrape with a razor blade or something similar. Also the alternative form of razor blade.
Verb
razor-blade (third-person singular simple present razor-blades, present participle razor-blading, simple past and past participle razor-bladed)
- To cut or scrape with a razor blade or something similar.
- Of course, my friend razor-bladed the offending page from all her own copies, but whenever she read in the schools, some kid always wanted to know, ' Where's that little green man it says in the front?"2010, Susan Ioannou, Holding True: Essays on Being a Writer, page 130
- "Never mind," Nishimura Blaine said as he razor-bladed the box open.2011, R. Zamora Linmark, Leche, page 96710
- To do something with extreme precision.
- A sigh slipped between her teeth as she razor-bladed each syllable with her tongue.2018, Ray Hudson, Ivory and Paper: Adventures In and Out of Time, page 17
Also used as
razor-blade is also the alternative form of razor blade.
Examples of razor-blade in a sentence
- I saw pages from a book carefully razor-bladed out with an X-Acto knife and painted to show scenes of children playing in a field.2013, Jason Merkoski, Burning the Page:
- To occupy any spare moments left us, in the course of our four weeks' 'basic' we had to razor-blade all the varnish off these chairs.2021, Raymond Horricks, Military Mayhem:
Forms of razor-blade
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | razor-blades |
| present participle | razor-blading |
| past participle | razor-bladed |
| past | razor-bladed |
| alternative form | razorblade |
| alternative form | razor blade |
| Noun | |
| plural | razor-blades |
Questions about razor-blade
- What does razor-blade mean?
- Razor-blade means to cut or scrape with a razor blade or something similar.
- How do you use razor-blade in a sentence?
- I saw pages from a book carefully razor-bladed out with an X-Acto knife and painted to show scenes of children playing in a field.
- What part of speech is razor-blade?
- Razor-blade is a verb.
- What is the past tense of razor-blade?
- The past tense of razor-blade is razor-bladed.
Words near razor-blade in the dictionary
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