v. 1
To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
v. 2
To incise, to cut into the surface of something. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
Would you please cut the cake?
n. 1
The act of cutting.
He made a fine cut with his sword.
adj. 1
Reduced.
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.

Related words

Word family: cut-and-paste cut-in cut-off cut-out cutting-edge cut-up cut-price cut-rate
Phrases: cut-off cut down cut short cut-up cut back cut-in cut across bowl cut
Is a kind of: divide impale

Forms

Cut, Slap or Lash?

A slap is given with the open hand, a lash with a whip, thong, or the like; we speak also of the cut of a whip.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: mix¹, lop¹
4 letters: turn¹, hurt¹, blow¹, thin¹, clip¹, edit², crop¹, hack¹, trim¹, chop¹, gash¹, pare¹, snip¹, kerf
5 letters: lower², piece¹, track¹, scene¹, score¹, fresh¹, split¹, shape¹, tight¹, chase¹, slice¹, shave¹, notch¹, slash¹
6 letters: reduce², slight¹, ripped¹, groove¹, canned¹
7 letters: channel², reduced², smashed¹, trimmed¹, severed², shorten², clipped¹, slashed¹, curtail², whittle², incised², chamfer
8 letters: decrease², weakened², shredded², incision³, undercut³, amputate³, retrench²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (edit² = 2 syllables).