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CUT THROUGH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel across or pass over
Example:
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
Synonyms:
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "cut through" is one way to...):
pass (go across or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut through"):
tramp (cross on foot)
stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)
walk (traverse or cover by walking)
crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)
ford (cross a river where it's shallow)
bridge (cross over on a bridge)
jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)
drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)
course (move swiftly through or over)
hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
That the largest balls thus discharged, would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once, but batter the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships, with a thousand men in each, to the bottom of the sea, and when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But John, as to what I was telling you of my idea of moving the path to Langham, of turning it more to the right that it may not cut through the home meadows, I cannot conceive any difficulty.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The flurrying snow did not permit the fire to burn any too well, while the wind cut through their clothes and chilled their bodies.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I attacked them at once and had very soon cut through three of them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As she looked full at me, I saw her face grow sharper and paler, and the marks of the old wound lengthen out until it cut through the disfigured lip, and deep into the nether lip, and slanted down the face.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
