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amputate: remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

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scissor collapse: cut with or as if with scissors

bisect collapse: cut in half or cut in two; "bisect a line"

whittle collapse: English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996); cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"

extirpate collapse: surgically remove (an organ)

halve collapse: divide by two; divide into halves; "Halve the cake"

stamp out collapse: end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"

rive collapse

sunder collapse: break apart or in two, using violence

truncate collapse: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"; make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"; replace a corner by a plane

lop collapse

take out collapse: buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food; "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook"; remove something from a container or an enclosed space; obtain by legal or official process; "take out a license"; "take out a patent"; purchase prepared food to be eaten at home; cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"

cull collapse: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality; remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd"

rule out collapse: dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"; include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules

hew collapse: strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"; make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"

eradicate collapse

shear collapse: a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it; (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"; cut with shears; "shear hedges"; cut or cut through with shears

sever collapse: set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"

strike off collapse

lance collapse: open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil"; pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight; move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore"

annihilate collapse

pare collapse: decrease gradually or bit by bit; remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"

except collapse

root out collapse

mutilate collapse: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies"; destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"

prune collapse: dried plum

isolate collapse: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"; obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"; separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

extinguish collapse

rend collapse: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

wipe out collapse: eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"

eliminate collapse: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"; terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations; remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"

saw collapse: hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting; cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace"

ax collapse: an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle; terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

peel collapse: the rind of a fruit or vegetable; British politician (1788-1850)

lessen collapse

cleave collapse: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"; make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

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