cut away

The father stood there with his son. Before the latter was the great oculist in the act of cutting away the last bandage.

This involves cutting away the earth in some places and building it up in the others.

All of these virtues spring from the cutting away of the entangling kleshas in the forest of our mind.

CHAMFER : The flat surface formed by cutting away the sharp edges of two meeting surfaces.

She didn't like to think of someone sticking sharp instruments up her nose and cutting away delicate tissue.

The hair follicles underneath the skin control it, so cutting away dead hair, isn't going to do anything.

Putting in a new window will involve cutting away part of the roof.

I washed the tomatoes, cutting away sections that were spoiled, and sliced and threw them into the pot.

Ms Bartz needs to sustain and grow that audience, extend it to the world of mobile phone browsing, while cutting away the chaff.

With great skill he slowly keeps cutting away until the bowl has the right thinness and form.

To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches.

Finely slice the fennel bulb, cutting away the core.

When water flows around a river bend, it deposits sediment on one bank while cutting away at the ground on the opposite bank.

(a) [Tn, Tn. p] make (sth) neat or smooth by cutting away irregular parts