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Snipped

Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.] To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject.
--Fuller.

The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
--De Foe.

Wiktionary
snipped

  1. (context informal English) circumcised. v

  2. (en-past of: snip)

WordNet
snip

  1. n. a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snippet, snipping]

  2. the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping]

  3. [also: snipping, snipped]

snip

  1. v. sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip off]

  2. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

  3. [also: snipping, snipped]

snipped

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Usage examples of "snipped".

As I said, the cuts are deep, the veins snipped cleanly, made by something very sharp.

You think Caitlyn Bandeaux slid under the Triumph and snipped the brake lines?

As she thought of Caitlyn, Atropos snipped at the pictures of Cricket and Sugar.

With her pair of long-bladed surgical scissors, she snipped the red and black braid cleanly.

There was no swelling round the wound, and Bella chewed her cud happily as I snipped away.

Sometimes you found the real thing further along in the colon, and for a long time I snipped my way along the coils of bowel with my scissors without finding anything definite.

Hoddan opened a cabinet, threw switches, and painstakingly cut and snipped and snipped at a tangle of wires within.

A machine cut the negatives before they went into the sleeves -- perhaps it had snipped off the frame.

A dozen stadiums could have fit inside the space and still left room for a state fair, a casino, and the Vatican if you snipped off a basilica or two.

There were leather skins hanging up, which had been snipped about as pieces were cut out of them for jesses, hoods or leashes.

She took the orange heart away from him and snipped it into a small circle.

She pointed to the letters of the alphabet strung across the chalkboard, then snipped the edges to make them smooth.

He snipped off the end with a cutter Charlie handed him and they took a moment to get their respective smokes going.