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cut down

verb

  1. tr to fell
  2. whenintr, often foll by on to reduce or make a reduction (in)

    to cut down on drink

  3. tr to remake (an old garment) in order to make a smaller one
  4. tr to kill

    he was cut down in battle

  5. cut a person down to size
    cut a person down to size to reduce in importance or decrease the conceit of


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Those still in Womey cut down trees and fashioned makeshift blockades so no one else could get inside the village.

And I would cut down a bunch of trees on the way home, just to be a dick.

Evidence shows that it would protect sex workers, reduce violence, cut down on sex trafficking, and more.

Hammud was cut down in the first blast in a hallway near the courtyard as he watched children and adults blown to pieces outside.

The main objective of the design is to cut down on manpower.

To save his faithful servant Frank wheeled Nejdi, and cut down a native who was lunging at Chumru with a bayonet.

There was the usual massacre, but this time the trees were cut down and the wells choked up.

His object was to reach Allahabad that night—not to hew his way through opposing hordes and risk being cut down in the process.

A tree while standing on the land is a part thereof; cut down it becomes personal property.

Howsomever, they deserved to be buried anyway, so give orders to have them all cut down and sent home to their own people.

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