intercut

American  

[in-ter-kuht, in-ter-kuht, in-ter-kuht] / ˌɪn tərˈkʌt, ˈɪn tərˌkʌt, ˈɪn tərˌkʌt /

verb (used without object)

intercut, intercutting

1. to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.

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verb (used with object)

intercut, intercutting

1. to insert (shots from other scenes, flashbacks, etc.) into the narrative of a film.

2. to interrupt the narrative of (a film) with shots from other scenes, flashbacks, etc.

noun

1. a film sequence or scene produced by intercutting.

intercut British  

/ ˌɪntəˈkʌt /

verb

1. films another word for crosscut

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Etymology

Origin of intercut

First recorded in 1605–15; inter- + cut

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

intercut intercutting

Flores intercut Bieber singing to the camera with footage of fans, behind-the-scenes chats with Usher and numerous angles of Bieber’s signature look — the swoop that inspired hair flips round the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

The way the lake looks and sounds, the movements of mundane morning tasks, are intercut with memories that eventually expose the roots and depths of Anne’s and Frankie’s predicaments.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

Seinfeld’s reboot is intercut with the story of Orny Adams, a young stand-up trying to follow the Seinfeld playbook.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

Selfies are intercut with footage of handwritten notes about overeating and influencers demonstrating waist cinchers.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2023

Riefenstahl cleverly intercut long shots of the progress of the boats with close-ups of Bobby Moch and the other coxswains barking commands point-blank into the camera.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

More directly than his previous films, his penchant for long takes with minimal intercutting seeds an emotional suspense, for us as well as the fragile humans inside cinematographer Yves Cape’s cool, steady frame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

With knowledge of past events through the intercutting of scenes, these meanings become touched with the sacred grief of all that one has loved and lost, yet also soothed by the consolation that remembrance brings.

From The Verge ● Mar. 25, 2022

Clarke tells the story crisply, intercutting the narratives, hopscotching timelines and deftly intermingling archival footage with insightful contemporary interviews.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

The intercutting isn’t the trick here—the trick is writing text that makes perfect sense whether you read it as a standalone pirate comic, a standalone newsvendor’s monologue, or a dialogue between the two.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2019

“Stay in the same low angle of him, intercutting with the key,” Haynes said.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019

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