scissor

[siz-er]

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or clip out with scissors.

2. to eliminate or eradicate from a text; expunge.

   testimony scissored from the record.

verb (used without object)

1. to move one's body or legs like the blades of scissors.

   a gymnast scissoring over the bar.

noun

1. scissors.

scissor

/ ˈsɪzə /

noun

1. (modifier) of or relating to scissors

   a scissor blade

verb

1. to cut (an object) with scissors

Other Word Forms

• unscissored adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of scissor¹

First recorded in 1605–15; v. use of singular of scissors

Example Sentences

While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.

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Johnny Depp, making another appearance in this book, plays the title character, “born” with scissors for hands, who comes down from his castle to live with the kindhearted Boggs family.

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Not even 180 seconds on the clock, and he connected with a ball seven, eight, or nine feet in the air - depending on who you ask - to scissor kick Scotland into the lead.

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He approached the draft version of “The Waste Land” by Eliot with a pair of scissors, and returned with modernism’s emblem.

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"The way we use a pair of scissors is quite mind-blowing when you think about it," Mr Walker says.

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Related Words

• carve 
• divide 
• rip 
• slash 
• slice