Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scissor
Participle: scissored
Gerund: scissoring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | scissor |
| you | scissor |
| he;she;it | scissors |
| we | scissor |
| you | scissor |
| they | scissor |
Perfect
| I | have scissored |
| you | have scissored |
| he;she;it | has scissored |
| we | have scissored |
| you | have scissored |
| they | have scissored |
Past
| I | scissored |
| you | scissored |
| he;she;it | scissored |
| we | scissored |
| you | scissored |
| they | scissored |
Pluperfect
| I | had scissored |
| you | had scissored |
| he;she;it | had scissored |
| we | had scissored |
| you | had scissored |
| they | had scissored |
Future
| I | will scissor |
| you | will scissor |
| he;she;it | will scissor |
| we | will scissor |
| you | will scissor |
| they | will scissor |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scissored |
| you | will have scissored |
| he;she;it | will have scissored |
| we | will have scissored |
| you | will have scissored |
| they | will have scissored |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scissor |
| you | scissor |
| he;she;it | scissor |
| we | scissor |
| you | scissor |
| they | scissor |
Perfect
| I | have scissored |
| you | have scissored |
| he;she;it | have scissored |
| we | have scissored |
| you | have scissored |
| they | have scissored |
Imperfect
| I | scissored |
| you | scissored |
| he;she;it | scissored |
| we | scissored |
| you | scissored |
| they | scissored |
Pluperfect
| I | had scissored |
| you | had scissored |
| he;she;it | had scissored |
| we | had scissored |
| you | had scissored |
| they | had scissored |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scissor |
| you | would scissor |
| he;she;it | would scissor |
| we | would scissor |
| you | would scissor |
| they | would scissor |
Perfect
| I | would have scissored |
| you | would have scissored |
| he;she;it | would have scissored |
| we | would have scissored |
| you | would have scissored |
| they | would have scissored |
Imperative
| you | scissor |
| we | Let's scissor |
| you | scissor |
Verbs conjugated like 'scissor'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'scissor'
cessor,
sciss,
blissom,
censor,
cursor,
missort,
scise,
scoss,
siss,
sissy,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Sample Sentences
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[…] let me know,
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Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him
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My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust
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To such a Favorites glasse […] [1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 2:]
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1829, uncredited author, “Letters from London,” No. VIII, The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Volume I, Number 19, 21 March, 1829, p. 267,
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[The poem] “All for Love” […] was originally intended for the Keepsake—the Editor of which Annual proposed to have it scissored down into genteel dimensions, which the Laureate refused to do […]
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Tucked between the pages were Sunday features, together with scissored snippings from gossip columns. [1958, Truman Capote, chapter 4, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, New York: Vintage, published 1993, page 37:]
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[…] Millroy scissored open his pants leg and bandaged his shin. [1993, Paul Theroux, chapter 4, in Millroy the Magician, New York: Ivy Books, published 1995, page 29:]
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They clipped the beads from her arms and scissored inches from her hair. [2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 48:]
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Network Rail, which had been able to secure funding from a multitude of 'patient capital' players across the world, was brought to heel, its credit card scissored. [2023 July 12, Jim Steer, “Rail's route to seizing the initiative”, in RAIL, number 987, page 39:]
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The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
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The next line and a half had been scissored out by the censor. [1955, Lionel Shapiro, chapter 15, in The Sixth of June, Garden City, NY: Doubleday:]
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At one university the navy made me attend, I took out a Chaucer which had lines scissored out […] [2003, William Gass, “The Shears of the Censor”, in Tests of Time, University of Chicago Press, page 190:]
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1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256,
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The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”
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1881, advertisement for Pattison’s Missouri Digest, 1873, published in The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 3, Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing,
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This Digest is the result of a careful reading of every case, and not a mere scissoring of head notes, as is so often done by digesters.
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The runner scissored over the hurdles.
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1938, Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow,” Part Three, in The Simple Art of Murder, Houghton Mifflin, 1950,
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She lay on her side on the floor under the bed, long legs scissored out as if in running.
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His jaws were scissoring mechanically on the already mushy sweet potatoes. [1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140:]
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[…] I stand on tiptoe, lift a shade and see a pair of nyloned legs scissoring through a cold, wet, metropolitan afternoon. [1978, Edmund White, chapter 5, in Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Penguin, published 1980, page 67:]
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She’s got her arms locked around his belly and her legs scissored around his shins […] [1989, Guy Vanderhaeghe, chapter 9, in Homesick, New York: Ticknor & Fields, published 1990, page 139:]