cut – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of cut

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to cut sb up
Participle: cut sb up
Gerund: cutting sb up

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Icut sb up
youcut sb up
he;she;itcuts sb up
wecut sb up
youcut sb up
theycut sb up

Perfect

Ihave cut sb up
youhave cut sb up
he;she;ithas cut sb up
wehave cut sb up
youhave cut sb up
theyhave cut sb up

Past

Icut sb up
youcut sb up
he;she;itcut sb up
wecut sb up
youcut sb up
theycut sb up

Pluperfect

Ihad cut sb up
youhad cut sb up
he;she;ithad cut sb up
wehad cut sb up
youhad cut sb up
theyhad cut sb up

Future

Iwill cut sb up
youwill cut sb up
he;she;itwill cut sb up
wewill cut sb up
youwill cut sb up
theywill cut sb up

Future Perfect

Iwill have cut sb up
youwill have cut sb up
he;she;itwill have cut sb up
wewill have cut sb up
youwill have cut sb up
theywill have cut sb up

Subjunctive

Present

Icut sb up
youcut sb up
he;she;itcut sb up
wecut sb up
youcut sb up
theycut sb up

Perfect

Ihave cut sb up
youhave cut sb up
he;she;ithave cut sb up
wehave cut sb up
youhave cut sb up
theyhave cut sb up

Imperfect

Icut sb up
youcut sb up
he;she;itcut sb up
wecut sb up
youcut sb up
theycut sb up

Pluperfect

Ihad cut sb up
youhad cut sb up
he;she;ithad cut sb up
wehad cut sb up
youhad cut sb up
theyhad cut sb up

Conditional

Present

Iwould cut sb up
youwould cut sb up
he;she;itwould cut sb up
wewould cut sb up
youwould cut sb up
theywould cut sb up

Perfect

Iwould have cut sb up
youwould have cut sb up
he;she;itwould have cut sb up
wewould have cut sb up
youwould have cut sb up
theywould have cut sb up

Imperative

youcut sb up
weLet's cut sb up
youcut sb up

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam cutting sb up
youare cutting sb up
he;she;itis cutting sb up
weare cutting sb up
youare cutting sb up
theyare cutting sb up

Perfect

Ihave been cutting sb up
youhave been cutting sb up
he;she;ithas been cutting sb up
wehave been cutting sb up
youhave been cutting sb up
theyhave been cutting sb up

Past

Iwas cutting sb up
youwere cutting sb up
he;she;itwas cutting sb up
wewere cutting sb up
youwere cutting sb up
theywere cutting sb up

Pluperfect

Ihad been cutting sb up
youhad been cutting sb up
he;she;ithad been cutting sb up
wehad been cutting sb up
youhad been cutting sb up
theyhad been cutting sb up

Future

Iwill be cutting sb up
youwill be cutting sb up
he;she;itwill be cutting sb up
wewill be cutting sb up
youwill be cutting sb up
theywill be cutting sb up

Future Perfect

Iwill have been cutting sb up
youwill have been cutting sb up
he;she;itwill have been cutting sb up
wewill have been cutting sb up
youwill have been cutting sb up
theywill have been cutting sb up

Conditional

Present

Iwould be cutting sb up
youwould be cutting sb up
he;she;itwould be cutting sb up
wewould be cutting sb up
youwould be cutting sb up
theywould be cutting sb up

Perfect

Iwould have been cutting sb up
youwould have been cutting sb up
he;she;itwould have been cutting sb up
wewould have been cutting sb up
youwould have been cutting sb up
theywould have been cutting sb up

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'cut'

beset, broadcast, burst, bust, cost, crosscut, cut, forecast, hit, hurt, inset, let, misread, overset, overspread, put, read, rebroadcast, recut, relet, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'cut'

but, cat, chut, cub, cud, cue, cun, cup, curt, gut,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to perform an incision, as by a knife
incise, snithe
to make smaller
abate, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lower, reduce
beating the human body with special implements
feague, flagellate, flog, knout, lash, lather, quirt, scourge, scutch, slash, strap, stripe, whip, thresh, whoop, yark
penetrate
score, scratch, gash, claw, incise, lance, pierce, slash
insult
hurt, move, slight, touch, wound
slice
haggle, chisel, bisect, dissect, mangle, rive, carve, dissever
harvest
mow, reap

Antonyms

penetrate
withdraw, retreat, recede, evacuate
insult
compliment, admiration, dignity, affection

Additional Information

Etymology

1. c.1275, possibly Scand., from N.Gmc. *kut-, or from O.Fr. couteau "knife." Replaced O.E. ceorfan "carve," sniþan, and scieran "shear." Meaning "to be absent without excuse" is British university slang from 1794. The noun meaning "gash, incision" is attested from 1530; meaning "piece cut off" is from 1591; sense of "a wounding sarcasm" is from 1568. To cut a pack of cards is from 1598. Cutthroat (n.) is first recorded 1535. Cutter "boat belonging to a ship of war" is attested from 1745, possibly so called from the way it "cuts" through the water. Cutting edge (adj.) in fig. sense first recorded 1985.
2. From Middle English cutten, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”).
3. Cf. Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk. See: Proto-Germanic '*kutjaną', Scots 'kut', Swedish 'kotta', Swedish 'kåta', Swedish 'kuta', Norwegian 'kutte', Norwegian, nynorsk 'kutte', Icelandic 'kuta'.

Verbs referencing "cut"

Norwegian kutte.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] held his hand, and then he screamed and kicked and ran to his father, and told him that I was fighting him. He came in a rage, and said he'd teach me who was my master; and he tied me to a tree, and cut switches for young master, and told him that he might whip me till he was tired; — and he did do it ! If I don't make him remember it, some time ! ” and the brow of the young man grew dark, and his [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] have been, from their cradles, specially disqualified from devoting themselves to any useful pursuit, on that account ) are so often and so unexpectedly and summarily cut off, and reinstated, and cut off again, that the whole family, down to the remotest cousin, is kept in a perpetual fever. At length it becomes plain that the old lady or gentleman has not long to live; and the plainer this [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • ‘But the immortal spirit which had been implanted within her could not die, nor be maimed nor mutilated; and though most of its avenues of communication with the world were cut off, it began to manifest itself through the others. As soon as she could walk, she began to explore the room, and then the house; she became familiar with the form, density, weight, and heat, of [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] fork; and in the midst of them sits the gentleman, whose manner of dealing with his charges, I have just described. At every meal, moral influence alone restrains the more violent among them from cutting the throats of the rest; but the effect of that influence is reduced to an absolute certainty, and is found, even as a means of restraint, to say nothing of it as a means of cure, a hundred times [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • “ Halloo, Sam—O Sam ! Mas’r wants you to cotch Bill and Jerry, ” said Andy, cutting short Sam's soliloquy. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • Andy grinned. “ Yer see, ” said Sam, “ yer see, Andy, if any such thing should happen as that Mas’r Haley's horse _should_ begin to act contrary, and cut up, you and I jist lets go of our’n to help him, and _we'll help him_—oh yes ! ” And Sam and Andy laid their heads back on their shoulders, and broke into a low, immoderate laugh, snapping their [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all blended in her mind, with a confused and stunning sense of the risk she was running, in leaving the only home she had ever known, and cutting loose from the protection of a friend whom she loved and revered. Then there was the parting from every familiar object,—the place where she had grown up, the trees under which she had played, the [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] fact, was an old one, that had formerly been a thoroughfare to the river, but abandoned for many years after the laying of the new pike. It was open for about an hour's ride, and after that it was cut across by various farms and fences. Sam knew this fact perfectly well,—indeed, the road had been so long closed up, that Andy had never heard of it. He therefore rode along with an air of dutiful [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] garments in America than those she pines in, in the Capitol. Let us hope that she has changed her dress-maker since they were fashioned, and that the public sentiment of the country did not cut out the clothes she hides her lovely figure in, just now. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • “ Why, now, stranger, what's that for ? ” said mine host. “ I'd do it all the same to the writer of that ar paper, if he was here, ” said the long man, coolly resuming his old employment of cutting tobacco. “ Any man that owns a boy like that, and can't find any better way o ’ treating on him, _deserves_ to lose him. Such papers as these is a shame to Kentucky; that's my mind right out, if [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • How is it ? No signal, we 're cut off. (My Hero Academia: You're Next)