scissored

verb

Definition of scissorednext
past tense of scissor
as in sawed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scissored
  1. slit
  2. slashed
  3. ripped
  4. split
  5. crosscut
  6. stabbed
Verb
  • But then her dead grandmother, Dorotea, crashes the supernatural party to exact revenge on Valya, for compelling her via The Voice to slit her throat decades prior.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Early on, it was revealed that Father Charlie Mayhew (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) was in fact, the killer and Lois (Niecy Nash) had slit his throat to save herself.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of slit
Verb
  • The Fed last month slashed its benchmark interest rate by a hefty half-percentage point — its first and biggest rate cut since the 2020 recession.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Well, that price tag just got slashed!
    Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of slashed
Verb
  • Correspondent Seth Doane talks with Russell about a show seemingly ripped from the headlines.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Fifteen days after the storm ripped through the Blue Ridge Mountains, power was finally restored to the property thanks to dozens of linemen, from local Sumter Utilities to Gagnon Lines Construction out of Canada.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of ripped
Verb
  • One open question is whether or not Netflix is going to split season 2 of Wednesday in half the way it’s done with later seasons of so many other popular shows from Stranger Things to Bridgerton to You, as of late.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Legal challenges mounted by transgender youths, their families and medical providers have been met with mixed results, and federal appeals courts have split over whether the bans are constitutional.
    Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of split
Verb
  • The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Clamp these pieces together edge-to-edge, and crosscut them again with the track saw to produce two 8-inch pieces that form the ends of the box and two 24 inch pieces that form the top and the bottom panels.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
Definition of crosscut
Verb
  • The quick action of a Navy veteran turned Arizona State University student may have saved the life of a fellow student, who was repeatedly stabbed in a seemingly random attack on campus.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Or that Galadriel, the warrior, stood by and watched her new ally—who had just promised her a forever peace—get stabbed to death and did nothing to intervene, despite being fully capable of slicing up a dozen orcs.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of stabbed
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