scissored

verb

past tense of scissor
as in sawed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scissored
  1. sliced
  2. slit
  3. sheared
  4. slashed
  5. ripped
  6. gashed
  7. split
  8. cleaved
Verb
  • As a team, the Lakers turned the ball over 21 times, nine in the fourth quarter when a 15-point lead was sliced to six points.
    — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
  • This process, which generates perfectly crystalline silicon ingots to be sliced like fragile metallic salamis into thin wafers, is entrusted largely to one firm in Taiwan and two in Japan.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of sliced
Verb
  • Afterward, Lindsay slit her wrists and neck, then jumped out of a second-story window.
    — Selena Barrientos, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Instead Justine shows up to slit his throat and take the baby from him, leaving him for dead; the child winds up disappearing with Holtz into a hell dimension.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of slit
Verb
  • If conditions are dry, the foliage will begin to yellow and can be sheared to the crown.
    — Marie Iannotti, The Spruce, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Once inside, they’re restrained, sometimes blindfolded to preserve their sanity, and carefully sheared before being released.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of sheared
Verb
  • A day later, Gravitics Holdings slashed its deal size by a whopping 60% ahead of the space-system developer’s $50 million IPO.
    — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom all slashed spending on foreign assistance after the United States gutted its own budget.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of slashed
Verb
  • Witnesses said the speeding car jumped over a sidewalk, knocked down a chain-link fence and ripped out another wooden fence before going airborne into the house.
    — Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • When the quarterback sneak is ripped from the playbook, creativity isn’t cute.
    — Sam McDowell October 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of ripped
Verb
  • A week after the defense was gashed by Nebraska, the offense sputtered to find its rhythm.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • And yes, the Lions gashed the Panthers’ secondary pretty bad on the national stage.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of gashed
Verb
  • The interface splits each 2-core fiber into two single-core fibers inside the repeater for efficient amplification, then merges them back into 2-core fibers.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Wanda, a donkey, and Max, a horse, split their time between a farm upstate and a stable in the Bronx.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of split
Verb
  • The capricious shift is whiplash-inducing, as if editors Adam Gough and Tom Eagles cleaved a sizable chunk of footage from the film.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaved
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