What is another word for saw at?

Pronunciation: [sˈɔː at] (IPA)

The phrase "saw at" generally means to cut or chop repeatedly with a sawing motion. However, there are several synonyms for this phrase that can be used to make your writing more interesting. Some options include "hack away," "slice through," "chop relentlessly," "carve persistently," "separate with a saw," "saw systematically," "cut vigorously," "divide continuously," and "section deliberately." Depending on the context of your writing, some of these synonyms may be more fitting than others. By using a variety of synonyms, your writing can become more descriptive and engaging.

What are the hypernyms for Saw at?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Saw at

  • My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.
    Giovanni Ribisi
  • For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
    Taylor Swift
  • In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
    Anthony Zinni
  • Instead of the poems I had hoped for, there came only a shuddering blackness and ineffable loneliness; and I saw at last a fearful truth which no one had ever dared to breathe before — the unwhisperable secret of secrets — The fact that this city of stone and stridor is not a sentient perpetuation of Old New York as London is of Old London and Paris of Old Paris, but that it is in fact quite dead, its sprawling body imperfectly embalmed and infested with queer animate things which have nothing to do with it as it was in life.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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