To cut down Meaning, Definition & Usage
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(a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. "Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia." Knolles.(b) To put down; to abash; to humble, Obs "So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator." Addison(c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses.(d) (Naut.) To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a sloop.
