cut to pieces

Verb

Meaning

To cut, chop, slice etc. so as to form smaller pieces.

(idiomatic, transitive) To utterly defeat or overwhelm.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

butcher slain slew chopped exterminate squish knock off schmoose mow down

Examples

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. Wilhelm Dilthey

[on the high seas] the English are increasing their insolence and barbarity. [T]hey cut to pieces the captain of a ship coming from Spain and threw all the crew into the sea for having defended themselves valiantly. Peter Paul Rubens

Pinned between Conrad and the Swabians, these horsemen were cut to pieces. Source: Internet

It is horrible—horrible; and to think of it, 130,000 magnificent soldiers so cut to pieces by less than 60,000 half-starved ragamuffins! Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cut to bone cut to fit cut to Hecuba cut to ribbons cut to shreds cut to size