Cut Out
How to Conjugate Cut Out
- Infinitive: Cut Out
- Present Tense: Cut Out/ Cuts Out
- -ing Form: Cutting Out
- Past Tense: Cut Out
- Past Participle: Cut Out
Definitions of Cut Out:
1. To remove something using a knife or a pair of scissors.
[Noun] {Cutout} Refers to the material that has been cut.
Examples: They had to cut the gum out of the little girl’s hair.
The seamstress used the heart-shaped cutouts to sew onto the dresses.
2. To stop using or doing something.
Examples: Diabetics have to cut sugar out of their diets.
Can you guys please cut out all of that arguing?
3. To leave quickly.
Examples: We need to cut out before it gets too late.
Everybody cut out when they smelled smoke.
4. To stop functioning.
Examples: The mechanic said my engine kept cutting out because a squirrel had been trapped inside.
The television cut out right in the middle of a good football play.
5. When a scene, chapter, or episode is removed.
Examples: The movie director cut out one of the most intense sex scenes of the movie.
I hate when books become movies because some of the best parts are cut out of the film.
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