Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cutting_out

1 sense of cutting out

Sense 1
ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision -- (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)
       => operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process -- (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cut_out

6 senses of cut out

Sense 1
cut out -- (delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article")
       => extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with -- (terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts")

Sense 2
cut out -- (form and create by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper")
       => shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge -- (make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword")

Sense 3
cut off, cut out -- (cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van")
       => intercept, stop -- (seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace")

Sense 4
scratch out, cut out -- (strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list")
       => erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off -- (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!")

Sense 5
cut down, cut out -- (intercept (a player))
       => check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back -- (hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism")

Sense 6
cut out -- (cease operating; "The pump suddenly cut out")
       => end, stop, finish, terminate, cease -- (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo")