cut acrosssomething
phrasal verbwithcutverbuk/kʌt/us/kʌt/present participlecutting|past tense and past participlecut
(CROSS)
B2
to gostraightfrom onesideof anareato anotherinsteadof going around:
If wecutacrossthefield, it'llsavetime.
Crossing and moving through
- bash through (something)
- break
- break throughsomething
- criss-cross
- cross
- crossed
- cut
- ford
- intersect
- penetrate
- penetrative
- percolate
- pierce
- plough
- plough throughsomething
- scythe
- thread
- transit
- traverse
- uncrossed
(AFFECT)
C1
If aproblemorsubjectcutsacrossdifferentgroupsofpeople, all of thosegroupsareaffectedby orinterestedin it:
Support forenvironmentalissuescutsacrosstraditionalpartylines.
Including and containing
- absorptive capacity
- all in
- assimilable
- assimilate
- buildsomethingin/intosomething
- carry
- cast
- enshrine
- extend
- factor
- factorsomethingin
- forget
- in
- package
- pepper
- peppersomethingwithsomething
- plug(something/someone)intosomething
- reincorporate
- reincorporation
- rich