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Definition of Cut through
1. Verb. Travel across or pass over. "These men cut through the river"; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
Specialized synonyms: Tramp, Stride, Walk, Crisscross, Ford, Bridge, Jaywalk, Drive, Take, Course, Hop
Generic synonyms: Go Across, Go Through, Pass
Derivative terms: Crossing, Crossing, Crossing, Track, Traversal, Traverse, Traverser
Definition of Cut through
1. Verb. (&lit) ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To make a detour across, as opposed to around ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic) To deal with something quickly in order to lessen the problem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Through
Literary usage of Cut through
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"If one such plane surface cut through another, we say the common boundary or line
where ... If three approximately plane surfaces on objects cut through ..."
2. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1885)
"41 is a room cut through a FLOOR. CUt in this Way, though r,roof; c, chimney;
to, wall; p,plants this is cut right down through the middle, ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"3 Periosteum and muscles retracted; electric saw used to cut through the bases
of the spinous processes. Fig. 4. Flap containing spinous processes and their ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1897)
"The great drawback to these operations is that in most instances the skull is
cut through by a chisel driven by a hammer. The amount of pressure thus ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In it a slot is cut through the top of the breech of the gun into the tube at
A (fig. 41) ; a breech block (fig. 43), through which the vent is driven, ..."
6. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"Mrs. Casteel was found on the floor, scalped in two places—a proof that it required
two warriors to conquer her—her nightcap with several holes cut through ..."
7. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1859)
"... one of his hands almost cut off, his head slashed in several places, his skull
cut through, his brains coming out at his nose and scattered all around. ..."
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