Read full poem →the peculiar language of farce, and if a fine comedy must
of necessity be cut down into an after-piece, such a change
was requisite — but what apology is there for the additions
Dictionary Entry
To bring down by cutting.
In a Sentence
“They want to cut down several trees to make room for the parking lot.”
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Poetry examples for “cut down”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →OUT of the wood of thoughts that grows by night
To be cut down by the sharp axe of light,--
Out of the night, two cocks together crow,
Read full poem →Go, cut down trees in the forest,
And trim the straightest boughs;
Read full poem →Enter'd the deadly Plain; Branch upon Branch
Cut down, and gather'd in a lofty Pile,
And fired. They look'd upon the Flames, those Two—
Read full poem →In beauty’s pride array’d;
But long ere night cut down it lies
All wither’d and decay’d.
Read full poem →Where I was working at the chopping-block,
And cutting nothing not cut down already.
He caught my axe expertly on the rise,
Read full poem →man this was, but one that Willbewill did put a great deal of confidence
in; but him also did this Captain Execution cut down to the ground with
the rest.