Talk:cut down

Deletion debate

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cut down

Sense: To bring down by cutting. Usex: They want to cut down several trees to make room for the parking lot.

There are two other senses (and another on the way) that are the kind considered phrasal verbs. They seem OK. I have inserted {{&lit}} which, it seems to me covers this. We can keep the usex. DCDuring TALK 21:50, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

• Keep: Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 23:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

• Keep, although possibly reword. "cut down" as in "they cut down the pinata (that was hanging from the ceiling)" seems SOP (which I assume is what the &lit refers to), but "cut down" as in "they cut down the tree (that was growing from the ground)" doesn't. I can't place my finger on quite why, but it seems idiomatic in this case. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:33, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

  I'd like to be able to share this intuitive seeming, but I don't. I don't see a sense change in cut. A tree or a pole or a vertical timber or even a similar tall, thin metal structure can be "sawn down" or "sawed down" or "chainsawed down" or "chopped down". I suppose one might search for attestation for (deprecated template usage) cutdown. DCDuring TALK 15:52, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

• Comment: is "cutting down a hedge to 5 feet" (from, say, 6 feet) understandable? Does that make cutting trees different from cutting down hedges? --129.125.102.126 22:06, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Kept. Majority of editors weighing in (two out of three) have voted to keep. No further discussion for over two months. bd2412 T 23:17, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

adj

i added an adj section, and a bare-bones cover-all definition. i think there is at least one specialized sense worth noting ... see citations:cut_down ... i wouldnt be able to tell you what it means ... perhaps reduced in size? worth noting because without the context i would think it means they were operating on reduced power. —Soap— 20:56, 2 October 2023 (UTC)