half-cut

adjective

partially severed or dividedhalf-cut citrus fruits lying around

informal intoxicated with alcoholhe looks half-cut already

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You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

To cook in water that begins cold and then reaches a boil.

To stew in a sauce for a long time.

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Words nearby half-cut

half-convinced, half-cooked, half-covered, half crown, half-cup, half-cut, half-day, half-dead, half deck, half-deserted, half-digested

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Example sentences from the Web for half-cut

She saw him enter the corral and mount the half-cut haystack, and proceed to cut deeper into it.
The Golden Woman|Ridgwell Cullum
His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by Madame de Souza.
War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy
Putting all my strength in my wrists, I burst the half-cut bonds; and the rest was easy.
Lords of the North|A. C. Laut
The kitchen was bright and clean; it was littered, however, with half-cut loaves of bread, glasses and empty bottles.
The Window at the White Cat|Mary Roberts Rinehart

A yellow-bound, half-cut volume of French essays lay beside him.
The Shadow of Life|Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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