cutting

cutting
n
1. severance, disseverance, sunderance; splitting, cleaving, cleavage, slitting; rending, tearing.
2. piece, part, particle, bit; slice, Inf. clip, clipping; (all usu. of a plant) cut, slip, scion.
adj
3. sharp, sharpened, edged, honed, razor-sharp; lancinating, stabbing; keen, pointed.
4. numbing, freezing, frigid, chilling, raw; cold, chilly, algid, bitter; piercing, penetrating, biting, nipping, stinging, pricking.
5. caustic, mordant, mordacious, acrimonious, acrid, acidulous, acid, pungent; trenchant, incisive, slashing, scathing; astringent, severe, sharp, sharp-tongued, acerb, acerbic, stern, harsh, austere, stringent; spiteful, virulent, malicious, malificent, venomous, vicious, malevolent, malignant; invidious, hateful.
6. sarcastic, sardonic, scornful, mocking, ridiculing, derisive, derisory; satirical, ironic, ironical, double-edged, cynical; contemptuous, contumelious, disparaging, sneering, disdainful, supercilious, depreciatory; critical, captious, carping, censorious, faultfinding.

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