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CUT INTO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth

Example:

turn over the soil for aeration

Synonyms:

cut into; delve; dig; turn over

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "cut into" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut into"):

furrow; groove; rut (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)

root; rootle; rout (dig with the snout)

spade (dig (up) with a spade)

shovel (dig with or as if with a shovel)

trowel (use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work)

burrow; tunnel (move through by or as by digging)

Sentence frames:

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 Context examples: 

There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)