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scissored

scissored is the simple past and past participle of scissor.

Meaning of scissor

Verb

scissor (third-person singular simple present scissors, present participle scissoring, simple past and past participle scissored)

  1. (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
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  2. (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
    • The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
    • The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
    • The runner scissored over the hurdles.
  5. (intransitive) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
  6. To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

See all 8 meanings of scissor

Adjective

scissored (not comparable)

  1. Equipped with scissors.
    • The black-robed, scissored girls of the drapery store at the next angle of the place were finishing their tenth hour of vigil over goods displayed on the footpath.1913, Arnold Bennett, chapter 3, in Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People, New York: George H. Doran

Questions about scissored

What does scissored mean?
Scissored means equipped with scissors.
What is scissored the simple past and past participle of?
Scissored is the simple past and past participle of scissor.
What part of speech is scissored?
Scissored is an adjective.

Words near scissored in the dictionary

  1. scissor-tailed flycatcher
  2. scissor-tailed flycatchers
  3. scissorable
  4. scissorbill
  5. scissorbills
  6. scissored
  7. scissorer
  8. scissorers
  9. scissorial
  10. scissoring
  11. scissorings

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