CUT INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut into mean? 

• CUT INTO (verb)
  The verb CUT INTO has 1 sense:

1. turn up, loosen, or remove earth

  Familiarity information: CUT INTO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT INTO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cut into; delve; dig; turn over

Context example:

turn over the soil for aeration

Hypernyms (to "cut into" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut into"):

furrow; groove; rut (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)

root; rootle; rout (dig with the snout)

spade (dig (up) with a spade)

shovel (dig with or as if with a shovel)

trowel (use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work)

burrow; tunnel (move through by or as by digging)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

He heard again the intimidating cry, and at the same instant received a sharp blow on the side of the neck and felt the sharp teeth of the mother-weasel cut into his flesh.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I saw a poor fellow at the inn here—it was some years ago—who showed us his back in the tap-room, all cut into red diamonds with the boat-swain’s whip.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But as the atmosphere thinned over time, larger raindrops could form and were heavy enough to cut into the soil changing the shape of craters and leading to running water that could have carved valleys.

(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)

The use of a series of integrated steps whereby a dry powder is conditioned to form a plasticized mass that is forced through a screen and cut into sections, ultimately to yield granules possessing characteristic dimensions and density.

(Extrusion Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)

If you could see your chart, you would notice that at the start of the month in one little slice of the pizza pie (the horoscope is cut into 12 slices) you have Venus, Mars, and Pluto all in Capricorn, your house of partners (romantic or business).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I then made her, according to certain established regulations from which no deviation, however slight, could ever be permitted, a glass of hot wine and water, and a slice of toast cut into long thin strips.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then she said: Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up entirely; when it is eaten you will have some peace, why should God’s good gifts be spoilt?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) we saw a hollow pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)