cut up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.21 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
Informal; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying."
- "The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33 a.m. train from Ruabon to Barmouth on the night of October 6, due to the bursting of the banks of the Shropshire Union Canal near Llangollen, was 2-6-0 No. 6315; the position into which the locomotive fell so completely defied all attempts to re-rail it that it was cut up on the spot."
- "The attackers cut him up pretty bad."
- "I once cut a guy up because he was making advances to a kid that I was very much in love with."
- "And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event[…]"
- "The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly."
Usage
Inflected Forms
cuts up (present, singular)
cutting up (participle, present)
more cut up (comparative)
most cut up (superlative)