cut dead
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To stop the infection from moving through her body, they cut dead tissue out of an area almost covering her entire left buttock.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2025
Mr. Bertolino and a small crew had worked through one recent night to cut dead brush from homes and hose away the encroaching fires.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2015
Now Skinner's task is to cut dead weight from the White House staff and reawaken the Administration's dormant domestic policy and public relations operation.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is never pleasant to be cut dead.
From Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm by Both, Armand
And have a wife that your friends will cut dead?
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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