Definition: significantly cut up a manuscript
Definition: prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
Usage: Edit a book on lexical semantics; she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages
Synonyms: cut up, mutilate, mangle
Definition: destroy or injure severely
Usage: The madman mutilates art work
Similar words: damage
Definition: inflict damage upon
Usage: The snow damaged the roof; She damaged the car when she hit the tree
Synonyms: compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up
Definition: separate into isolated compartments or categories
Usage: You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
Similar words: disunite, divide, part, separate
Definition: force, take, or pull apart
Usage: He separated the fighting children; Moses parted the Red Sea
Definition: cut to pieces
Usage: Father carved the ham
Synonyms: cut up
Definition: cut into pieces
Similar words: cut
Definition: separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
Usage: the cut surface was mottled; cut tobacco; blood from his cut forehead; bandages on her cut wrists