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cut down a tree

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  • cut down — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it. [V P on n] He cut down on coffee and cigarettes, and ate a balanced diet... [V P n (not pron)] Car owners were asked to cut down travel... [V P] If you… …   English dictionary

  • hew down a tree — cut down a tree …   English contemporary dictionary

  • cut down — verb 1. cut down on; make a reduction in (Freq. 8) reduce your daily fat intake The employer wants to cut back health benefits • Syn: ↑reduce, ↑cut back, ↑trim, ↑trim down, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • cut down — phrasal verb Word forms cut down : present tense I/you/we/they cut down he/she/it cuts down present participle cutting down past tense cut down past participle cut down 1) cut down something [intransitive/transitive] to reduce an amount of… …   English dictionary

  • cut down — phr verb Cut down is used with these nouns as the object: ↑consumption, ↑forest, ↑intake, ↑tree …   Collocations dictionary

  • when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money — Native American saying. 1983 H. WASSERMAN America Born and Reborn 277 ‘When you have polluted the last river,’ goes an Osage saying, ‘when you have caught the very last fish, and when you have cut down the very last tree, it is too bad that then …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • cut — cut1 W1S1 [kʌt] v past tense and past participle cut present participle cutting ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(reduce)¦ 2¦(divide something with a knife, scissors etc)¦ 3¦(make something shorter with a knife etc)¦ 4¦(remove parts from film etc)¦ 5¦(make a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Tree worship — (dendrolatry) refers to the tendency of many societies throughout history to worship or otherwise mythologize trees. Trees have played an important role in many of the world s mythologies and religions, and have been given deep and sacred… …   Wikipedia

  • Tree sitting — is a form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down (speculating that loggers will not endanger human lives by cutting an… …   Wikipedia

  • cut — vb Cut, hew, chop, carve, slit, slash mean to penetrate and divide something with a sharp bladed tool or instrument (as a knife, ax, or sword). Cut is by far the most comprehensive term, for it is not only interchangeable with any other word in… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Tree conservation areas in Singapore — Tree Conservation Areas are large urban areas in Singapore in which no tree with a girth above 1 metre when measured 50 centimetres from the ground may be felled without permission from the National Parks Board. There are currently two such areas …   Wikipedia

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