Main entry: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, foreshorten, shorten
Definition: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Usage: The manuscript must be shortened
Antonyms: lucubrate, dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, enlarge, flesh out
Definition: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
Main entry: turn off, turn out, switch off, cut
Definition: cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
Usage: Turn off the stereo, please; cut the engine; turn out the lights
Main entry: 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
Antonyms: uncut
Definition: not cut
Main entry: cut
Definition: (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
Usage: the cut pages of the book
Antonyms: uncut
Definition: (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge
Main entry: cut
Definition: fashioned or shaped by cutting
Usage: a well-cut suit; cut diamonds; cut velvet
Definition: not shaped by cutting or trimming
Definition: not sheared
Main entry: mown, cut
Definition: (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
Usage: the smell of newly mown hay
Definition: (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine
Main entry: cut, trimmed
Definition: made neat and tidy by trimming
Usage: his neatly trimmed hair
Main entry: shortened, cut
Definition: with parts removed
Usage: the drastically cut film
Antonyms: unabridged
Definition: (used of texts) not shortened
Main entry: cut, weakened, thinned
Definition: mixed with water
Usage: sold cut whiskey; a cup of thinned soup
Antonyms: undiluted
Definition: not diluted
Main entry: cut, slashed
Definition: (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
Usage: the slashed prices attracted buyers
Antonyms: increased
Definition: made greater in size or amount or degree
Main entry: gelded, emasculated, cut
Definition: (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
Usage: a cut horse
Antonyms: uncastrated
Definition: not castrated