competent
Definition: (adjective) having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable
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verb
- To penetrate with a sharp edge: cut, gash, incise, pierce, slit. See
enter, help
- To criticize harshly and devastatingly: blister, drub, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify
1, scathe, scorch, score, scourge, slap.
Informal: roast.
Slang: slam.
Idioms:
burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. See
praise
- To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: chop
1, clip
1, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop
1, lower
2, pare, prune, shear, trim, truncate. See
increase
noun
- The result of cutting: cut, gash, incision, slice, slit, split. See
enter, help
- An incision, a notch, or a slight cut made with or as if with a knife: score, scotch, scratch. See
marks
- The act or process of decreasing: abatement, curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, decrement, diminishment, diminution, drain, reduction, slowdown, taper. See
increase
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