Definitions
cut with or as if with scissors
Word origin
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Used in a sentence
“I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole.”
“He put his two fingers in the scissor holes. He pulled a stray wisp of hair from the thick braid that reached her waist. The small scissors sheared right through it.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Cut with two blades”7 letters
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