WordNet
v. move quickly to another scene or focus when filming; "`cut away now!' the director shouted"
remove by cutting off or away; "cut away the branch that sticks out"
Usage examples of "cut away".
And the eerie noise he couldn't make out, was it the scissors as they cut away his blood-soaked clothes?
To complete the illusion of it, some inventive workman apparently had shoved in, on the top of one of the rows, a part of a volume thin enough to lie between it and the bottom of the next shelf: he had cut away diagonally a considerable portion, and fixed the remnant with one of its open corners projecting beyond the book-backs.
Then, whilst one of them gently drew off his boots, Rodenard, with the lanthorn close beside him, cut away the fellow's doublet, and laid bare the oozing sword-wound that gaped in his mangled side.
The blacksmith took my feet in his hand, one after the other, and cut away some of the hoof.
Merely to cut away dead branches is like perpetual attendance at a funeral, and puts one in low spirits.
His right hand was missing, cut away, the wrist a cauterized stump.
There was one clinging bit of skin on the corpse before him which had clearly been cut away in an oval, as if to remove a tattoo after the person was dead .
There was one clinging bit of skin on the corpse before him which had clearly been cut away in an oval, as if to remove a tattoo after the person was dead .
With two more trips back to the scope Smythe was able to place the implement precisely where he needed to cut away a small section of the hotel window's glass.
He'd already cut away a trouser leg, applied a tourniquet around the thigh, sprayed something on a hairy calf.
If only they might cut away through the thicket to that restoring spring!
Then would come to me the thought that if I chose their path, so must I cut away part of my life.
Using scissors from the dressing table, she cut away all the insignia of rank, leaving a one-piece garment, not unlike what her own world called a jump suit.
As long as no one tried to push forward into the tower, a prince's companions were always able to cut away enough of the hedge to pull him free.
The two biggest ones had been to convert the fittings from bronze to steel and his decision to cut away the threads on two sides of the threaded bolt plug and to interrupt the threads that the plug seated into so that only a half turn was required to engage and disengage the threads.