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cut (down)

verb

Definition of cut (down)

as in to mow

to bring down by cutting we need to cut down that dying tree

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mow

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One skeleton is mowing right over another, while others tend to buckets of slime, climb on the larger figures and play around the yard.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Instead, lawn-mowing machines shred them, leaving plastic fragments in the soil for a very long time.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026

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cut (down)

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