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cut up
verb
- to cut into pieces
- to inflict injuries on
- informal.usually passive to affect the feelings of deeply
- informal.to subject to severe criticism
- informal.(of a driver) to overtake or pull in front of (another driver) in a dangerous manner
- cut up rough informal.to become angry or bad-tempered
noun
- informal.a joker or prankster
Example Sentences
I would go to dissection classes, cut up a human cadaver, and then go home and write about what I had learned and felt.
So when the Suboxone reaches the joint, it is cut up into eight doses.
Another added: “Cressida is really cut up about how things ended and spent the weekend feeling very down.”
It flashed on Mrs. Kleinhans that her daughter would be cut up and buried before she could even see her.
Lifting his swollen hands and visibly cut-up wrists as proof, he leads me through a trail of wounds.
Levison's relations think he will cut up well at his death; Levison's relations are right.
Islands are so numerous that the whole shore is cut up by a confused procession of them, as it were.
I have known them arrive in early autumn, and do great havoc amongst the apples, which they cut up to get at the pips.
The —— regiment was spoken of in the highest terms; it had been in the heat of the action, and had been terribly cut up.
The road was a bit cut up and sandy in places, but Clip whaled his machine along and they did a trifle better than thirty miles.
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