Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense intercuts, present participle intercuttinglanguage note: The form intercut is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
verb
If a film is intercut with particular images, those images appear regularly throughout the film.
[technical]
The film is set in a night club and intercut with images of gangland London. [beVERB-ed + with]
He intercuts scenes of Rex getting more and more desperate with scenes of the abductorwith his family. [VERB noun + with]
intercut in British English
(ˌɪntəˈkʌt)
verbWord forms: -cuts, -cutting or -cut
cinema another word for crosscut
intercut in American English
(ˌɪntərˈkʌt)
verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈinterˈcut or ˈinterˈcutting
Cinema and Television
to interrupt (a scene, sequence, etc.) by inserting (a shot, sequence, etc.), sometimes repeatedly