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Noun

S: (n) undercut (the material removed by a cut made underneath)
S: (n) tenderloin, undercut (the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column)
S: (n) undercut (a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall)
S: (n) cut, undercut ((sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball) "cuts do not bother a good tennis player"
S: (n) undercut (a cut made underneath to remove material)

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S: (n) cut, cutting (the act of cutting something into parts) "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"

S: (n) division (the act or process of dividing)

S: (n) separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)

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S: (n) avulsion (a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another)
S: (n) dissociation (the act of removing from association)
S: (n) secession, withdrawal (formal separation from an alliance or federation)

S: (n) breakaway, breaking away (the act of breaking away or withdrawing from) "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood"

S: (n) disunion (the termination or destruction of union)

S: (n) detribalization, detribalisation (the decline or termination of tribal organization)

S: (n) disconnection, disjunction (the act of breaking a connection)
S: (n) division (the act or process of dividing)

S: (n) parcellation (the division into parcels) "the increasing parcellation of land with every generation"

S: (n) cleavage (the act of cleaving or splitting)
S: (n) bisection (dividing into two equal parts)
S: (n) quartering (dividing into four equal parts)
S: (n) schism, split (division of a group into opposing factions) "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"
S: (n) cut, cutting (the act of cutting something into parts) "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"

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S: (n) severance, severing (the act of severing)
S: (n) dissection (cutting so as to separate into pieces)
S: (n) scission (the act of dividing by cutting or splitting)
S: (n) slicing (the act of cutting into slices)
S: (n) undercut (a cut made underneath to remove material)

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S: (n) atomization, atomisation, fragmentation (separating something into fine particles)
S: (n) branching, ramification, fork, forking (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)

S: (n) bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)
S: (n) trifurcation (the act of splitting into three branches)
S: (n) divarication (branching at a wide angle)
S: (n) fibrillation (act or process of forming fibrils)

S: (n) dichotomization, dichotomisation (the act of dividing into two sharply different categories)
S: (n) quantization, quantisation (the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory)
S: (n) fractionation (separation into portions)
S: (n) syllabication, syllabification (forming or dividing words into syllables)
S: (n) word division, hyphenation (division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page)
S: (n) cut, cutting (the division of a deck of cards before dealing) "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"; "the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual"

S: (n) detachment, disengagement (the act of releasing from an attachment or connection)
S: (n) tear (the act of tearing) "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear"

S: (n) laceration (the act of lacerating)
S: (n) rent, rip, split (the act of rending or ripping or splitting something) "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

S: (n) removal, remotion (the act of removing) "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"

S: (n) abscission, cutting off (the act of cutting something off)

S: (n) circumcision (the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males)

S: (n) abstraction (the act of withdrawing or removing something)
S: (n) extraction (the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)) "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
S: (n) autotomy (spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack)
S: (n) decontamination (the removal of contaminants)
S: (n) deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

S: (n) expurgation, castration (the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work)

S: (n) bowdlerization, bowdlerisation (the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent)

S: (n) censoring, censorship (deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances)

S: (n) Bowdlerism (censorship in the form of prudish expurgation)
S: (n) Comstockery (censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality)

S: (n) expunction, expunging, erasure (deletion by an act of expunging or erasing)

S: (n) denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking (the removal of covering)

S: (n) deforestation, disforestation (the removal of trees)
S: (n) cornhusking (the act of removing the husks from ears of corn)

S: (n) dermabrasion (removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer)
S: (n) dislodgment, dislodgement (forced removal from a position of advantage)
S: (n) elimination, riddance (the act of removing or getting rid of something)

S: (n) simplification (elimination of superfluous details)

S: (n) oversimplification, simplism (an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is)
S: (n) rationalization, rationalisation ((mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation)

S: (n) elimination (the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations)
S: (n) emptying, voidance, evacuation (the act of removing the contents of something)

S: (n) drain, drainage (emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it)

S: (n) rinse, rinsing (the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing)
S: (n) disembowelment, evisceration (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)
S: (n) skimming (the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid)
S: (n) withdrawal (the act of taking out money or other capital)

S: (n) bank withdrawal (the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank)

S: (n) bank run (the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail)

S: (n) disinvestment (the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation)

S: (n) withdrawal (the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.) "the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood"

S: (n) division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation (the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart)

S: (n) subdivision (the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided)
S: (n) septation (the division or partitioning of a cavity into parts by a septum)
S: (n) zoning (dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc)

S: (n) divergence, divergency (the act of moving away in different direction from a common point) "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines"
S: (n) withdrawal (the act of ceasing to participate in an activity)
S: (n) Secession (the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War)

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S: (n) change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)

S: (n) change (the action of changing something) "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"

S: (n) action (something done (usually as opposed to something said)) "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"

S: (n) act, deed, human action, human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)

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S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)

S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)

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S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

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Verb

S: (v) undersell, undercut (sell cheaper than one's competition)
S: (v) undercut (cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief)
S: (v) undercut (cut away the underpart of) "undercut a vein of ore"
S: (v) undercut (strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot)
S: (v) undercut (cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall)