cutting

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small piece cut from a plant and used to grow a new one.

   She took a cutting from the rose bush to plant in her garden.

2. 2
   adj

   (of words) harsh and deliberately hurtful.

   She made a cutting remark about his work.

3. 3
   adj

   (of wind or cold) sharp and painful.

   A cutting wind blew across the open field.

4. 4
   noun

   A passage dug through higher ground for a road or railway.

   The train slowed as it entered the deep cutting through the hills.

From cut + -ing.

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