cut sth up
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
B1 to cut something into pieces
Examples
- Cut the chicken breast up into small pieces.
- How do you stop your eyes from watering when you're cutting up onions?
- The children cut up lots of coloured paper and pictures from magazine to make a collage.
- He took her credit card and cut it up into pieces because she had run up such a huge bill.
- OK then - we'll cut the cake up into equal pieces. How many people want cake?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- divide/split (sth) down the middle idiom
- drift
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- riven
- tear 1
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