| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A quick, sharp blow, especially with the hand: box2, buffet, bust, cuff, punch, slap, smack1, smacker, spank, swat, whack. Informal : clip1, spat. See ATTACK, STRIKE. | | VERB: | To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: clip1, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop1, lower2, pare, prune, shear, slash, trim, truncate. See INCREASE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | chop down To bring down, as with a saw or ax: cut (down), fell1, hew. See RISE.
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