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scissor
verb as in cut
Strong matches
- amputate
- behead
- bisect
- bite
- chine
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- clip
- crop
- curtail
- dice
- dispatch
- dissect
- dissever
- facet
- fell
- flitch
- gash
- guillotine
- hack
- hash
- hew
- intersect
- lacerate
- level
- lop
- massacre
- mince
- mow
- nick
- notch
- part
- penetrate
- perforate
- pierce
- prune
- puncture
- quarter
- rabbet
- raze
- reap
- rend
- rive
- saber
- saw
- scarify
- score
- scythe
- separate
- shave
- shear
- sickle
- slaughter
- slay
- slit
- sliver
- snip
Example Sentences
He said he had been shown around the store, and had been given a pair of scissors to cut the ribbon.
A man has been jailed for 30 years for trying to kill a police officer by stabbing him in the head with a pair of scissors.
In De Longe’s classroom, I grabbed a pair of scissors, cut through the new rug’s plastic packaging and unfurled it on the hardwood floor.
On Aug. 14, according to police reports, Chapman found Sindle maniacally chopping up a piece of binder paper with scissors.
The CRISPR-Cas9 molecular complex, also known as genetic scissors, is the most widely used tool by scientists around the world.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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