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cutting has 20 distinct synonyms spread across 12 of its 13 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
“he searched through piles of letters and clippings”
removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
“the barber gave him a good cut”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for cutting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.