cut up
Found in thesaurus: cut,
damage,
disunite,
separate,
divide,
part,
redact,
edit,
mischief-maker,
trouble maker,
troubler,
bad hat,
troublemaker
Cut-up technique
The
cut-up technique (or
découpé in
French) is an
aleatory literary technique in which a
text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the
Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer
William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.
Suicide Season
cut up
Verb
1. cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"
(synonym) carve
(hypernym) cut
(hyponym) shave
2. destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
(synonym) mutilate, mangle
(hypernym) damage
(hyponym) deface
3. separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!"
(synonym) compartmentalize, compartmentalise
(hypernym) separate, disunite, divide, part
4. significantly cut up a manuscript
(synonym) hack
(hypernym) edit, redact
Adjective
1. cut into pieces
(similar) cut
cut-up
Noun
1. someone who plays practical jokes on others
(synonym) prankster, trickster, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker
(hypernym) troublemaker, trouble maker, troubler, mischief-maker, bad hat
cut-up
(See a cut-up)
cut up
Synonyms and related words:
act up, afflict, aggrieve, anguish, antic, apportion, barb the dart, behave ill, break down, bring to tears, broken-down, brokenhearted, bruise, caper, caracole, carp, carry on, carve, carve up, catch at straws, cavil, cavort, censure, clown, condemn, crush, crushed, curvet, cut, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up rough, dance, deep-troubled, denounce, desolate, desolated, disconsolate, disport, district, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, divvy, divvy up, draw tears, embitter, fault-find, find fault, flounce, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambol, get into mischief, go on, grieve, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, hell around, horse, horse around, horseplay, hurt, hurt the feelings, inundate, inundated, knock, maffick, misbehave, misdemean, miserable, nitpick, oppress, overcome, overwhelm, overwhelmed, pain, pan, parcel, parcel out, part, partition, pettifog, pick holes, pick to pieces, pierce, play, play the fool, portion, prick, prostrate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quibble, raise Cain, raise hell, raise sand, raise the deuce, raise the devil, raise the roof, rap, reprehend, reprobate, rollick, romp, roughhouse, section, segment, share, share out, share with, show off, skin, skip, slice, slice the pie, slice up, sorrow, split, split up, sport, stab, sting, stricken, subdivide, suicidal, take exception, tear apart, tear to pieces, torment, trip, twist the knife, undone, whoop it up, woebegone, woeful, wound, wretched, zone
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
CUT UP
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