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sciss

sciss verb: to scissor; to cut as if with scissors.

Verb

sciss (third-person singular simple present scisses, present participle scissing, simple past and past participle scissed)

  1. (nonstandard) To scissor; to cut as if with scissors.

Forms of sciss

third-person singular presentscisses
present participlescissing
past participlescissed
pastscissed

Origin of sciss

Back-formation from scissors.

Questions about sciss

What does sciss mean?
Sciss means to scissor; to cut as if with scissors.
What part of speech is sciss?
Sciss is a verb.
What is the past tense of sciss?
The past tense of sciss is scissed.

Words near sciss in the dictionary

  1. scised
  2. scises
  3. scising
  4. scism
  5. scisms
  6. sciss
  7. scissars
  8. scissel
  9. scissels
  10. scissible
  11. scissil

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