cut up

1. (intransitive, literally)To cut upward.

   cut to pieces

2. (transitive)To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.

   With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying.

   zerschneiden, zerteilen, zerlegen

   разрезатьrazrezatʹ

3. (informal, transitive)To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.

   The attackers cut him up pretty bad.

   damage or injure severely

4. (idiomatic, transitive)To distress mentally or emotionally.

5. (dated, idiomatic, transitive)To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.

   The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.

6. (idiomatic, intransitive)To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.

   We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class.

7. (Ireland, UK, idiomatic, transitive)To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.

   schneiden

   подрезатьpodrezatʹ

8. (intransitive)To disintegrate; to break into pieces.

9. (dated, slang)To divide into portions well or badly; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc.

10. (informal)Comprise a particular selection of runners.

    The race has cut up badly with no real opposition to "Serendipity".

1. Cut my food up for me.

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2. Cut your meat up into small pieces.

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3. Tom cut up all the pictures he had of Mary.

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4. I cut up all but one of my credit cards.

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5. He cut up the meat and weighed it.

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irregular · Lesson

• cut upперебитиTo cut upward.
• cut offперебитиTo remove by cutting.
• cut outзрубати, зрубуватиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To sever from something larger, with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument.
• cut inвставити, вкластиTo intrude or interrupt.
• cut downзрубати, зрубуватиTo cut downward.
• cut backрізати, рубатиTo reduce the amount of (something).
• cut intoкопати, ритиSynonym of cut in (to include)
• cut throughпокрити, прикритиTo take a shortcut through.