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[ verb ] move quickly to another scene or focus, as in filming

Examples

"`cut away now!' the director shouted"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Left in their previous atom-like smallness , they would have cut_away too abruptly into depth ; and the broad , opaque shapes of pasted paper would have been isolated in such a way as to make them jump_out of plane .

Related terms

cut

2
[ verb ] remove by cutting off or away

Examples

"cut away the branch that sticks out"

Related terms

cut undercut undercut

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