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
  • The Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children before slitting her wrists and jumping out of a second-story window in an attempt to take her own life is planning to seek an insanity defense, court records show.
    KC Baker, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The garlic and coriander mustn’t burn, the broth mustn’t boil, and the ladle should slit through a body that is just silky enough.
    Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of slit
Verb
  • In another incident that month, a train conductor was slashed in the neck.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • So much so that movement speeds of loads (up or down) were slashed by 85% compared to common-or-garden backpacks.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of slashed
Verb
  • But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Milton’s hurricane-force winds ripped trees from already soggy soils, but its historic rain also flooded neighborhoods that had never experienced waters so high.
    Jack Prator, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of ripped
Verb
  • Since then, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have dramatically split from the royal family and have pursued their own ventures in America, including filming a headline-grabbing Netflix access series.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Finley split pinon kindling burns in fire pits across the property.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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
  • Two people were stabbed at a transit station in Queens, with one of them dying, and a woman was set on fire and died on a subway car in Brooklyn.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Hernandez-Velasco, 32, was rushed to Stamford Hospital after he was stabbed at a party, cops said.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of stabbed
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