cut back
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
return in time
the film cut back to an earlier event in the story
Types & categories
- return hypernym
Related & opposite
- flashback derivation
Sense 2 verb
cut down on; make a reduction in
reduce your daily fat intake
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
dress the plants in the garden
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
place restrictions on
curtail drinking in school
Types & categories
- limit hypernym
- abridge hyponym
- immobilize hyponym
Related & opposite
- restriction derivation
- bridle derivation
- restrictive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flashback |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | return |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reduction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cutback |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | clipping |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reductive |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | cut |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | minify |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | shorten |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | spill |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | quench |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | retrench |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | slash |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | thin out |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | thin |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | detract |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | deflate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | inflate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | downsize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | subtract |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | knock off |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | snip |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | clipping |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pruning |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | clipper |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pruning hook |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | snip |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pruner |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | harvest |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | thin out |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shear |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pollard |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pinch |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | disbud |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | restriction |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | bridle |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | restrictive |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | limit |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | abridge |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | immobilize |