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cut away: remove by cutting off or away; "cut away the branch that sticks out"; move quickly to another scene or focus when filming; "`cut away now!' the director shouted"

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cut across collapse: be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"

cut corners collapse: do something the cheapest or easiest way; "Cut corners to make a cheaper product"

foreshorten collapse: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

boil down collapse: be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"

scissor collapse: cut with or as if with scissors

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

roll back collapse

scale down collapse: reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down"

cut back collapse: return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"

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

rive collapse

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)

epitomize collapse

amputate collapse: remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

premeditated collapse: characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning; "a premeditated crime"

disconnect collapse: make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

cold shoulder collapse

cavort collapse

on ice collapse

in the bag collapse

elide collapse: leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

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

disport collapse

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

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

reap collapse: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"; get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

take from collapse

rigged collapse: fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)

step down collapse

sum up collapse: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

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"

uncouple collapse: disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds"

recapitulate collapse: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"; repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

pooh pooh collapse

sunder collapse: break apart or in two, using violence

abbreviate collapse: shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"

run along collapse

telescope collapse: a magnifier of images of distant objects; make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"; crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

prune collapse: dried plum

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