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chine
noun as in crest
noun as in ridge
noun as in spine
Weak matches
verb as in cut
Strong matches
- amputate
- behead
- bisect
- bite
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- clip
- crop
- curtail
- dice
- dispatch
- dissect
- dissever
- facet
- fell
- flitch
- gash
- guillotine
- hack
- hash
- hew
- intersect
- lacerate
- level
- lop
- massacre
- mince
- mow
- nick
- notch
- part
- penetrate
- perforate
- pierce
- prune
- puncture
- quarter
- rabbet
- raze
- reap
- rend
- rive
- saber
- saw
- scarify
- scissor
- score
- scythe
- separate
- shave
- shear
- sickle
- slaughter
- slay
- slit
- sliver
- snip
Example Sentences
Sitting in the antique store was this piece, made out of papel de chine, newsprint, clay pot and ceramic head.
Delicate gold spiderwebs on a black crepe de chine gown, for example; also a trench coat turned out in blood-red PVC; and a handbag emblazoned with the warning “Beware of Moschino.”
There was Etta’s long blue crêpe de chine evening dress and some white pumps and a rhinestone tiara for her hair.
Her first resort was a black crepe de chine dress which, according to the dressing table mirror, bestowed by means of clever cutting a certain severity of form.
He added that the name comes from the fact that you can “draw a dead-straight line at any point along the bottom of the hull as it rises from the keel to the chine.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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