CUT THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut through mean? 

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

1. travel across or pass over

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel across or pass over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse

Context example:

The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

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

pass (go across or through)

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

tramp (cross on foot)

stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)

ford (cross a river where it's shallow)

bridge (cross over on a bridge)

jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)

drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)

course (move swiftly through or over)

hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Lestrade had learned by more experiences than he would care to acknowledge that that brain could cut through that which was impenetrable to him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here is what’s going on this Sunday date: Mars will oppose Uranus and cut through your two sectors of friendship and love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Now it is no longer necessary to cut through the jungle to see what's under it," said Canuto.

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

The latter may have a different thickness and/or cut through the subject at a different angle than the original set.

(Image Reslicing, NCI Thesaurus)

The sharp rocks cut through his pants' legs till his knees left a trail of blood; but the hurt was lost in the hurt of his hunger.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In a voice which, though low and almost in a whisper seemed to cut through the air and then ring round the room he said:—How dare you touch him, any of you?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had cut through a bulkhead unobserved and had removed one of the sacks of coin, worth perhaps three or four hundred guineas, to help him on his further wanderings.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was an old scar—I should rather call it seam, for it was not discoloured, and had healed years ago—which had once cut through her mouth, downward towards the chin, but was now barely visible across the table, except above and on her upper lip, the shape of which it had altered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Clouds hid the moon, everything was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)