(transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
Used in a Sentence
sawed
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sawed.
Editorial note
The poor guy had his skull sawed open and a thing pulled out of his brain.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sawed gathered in one view.
(intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
(intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sawed.
verb
(transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
verb
(intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
verb
(intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
verb
(transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
Example sentences
The poor guy had his skull sawed open and a thing pulled out of his brain.
You'd be in the exact same situation walking into the police station with a bag of cocaine or a sawed-off shotgun.
It felt like looking through a toilet paper roll sawed in half.
These people have had years and years of being overweight, have no idea how to truly eat and their weight has see-sawed their entire life.
But also watch it carefully, in case it is just a goat with one horn sawed off, that has been dyed pink and dipped in glitter.
Schmitz was found with a sawed off shotgun, and the police had to cut him out of his panic room, so he could obviously be dangerous.
Between having my hand blown off and sawed off, I'd prefer neither.
New attitudes can be sawed in current minds.
Good encapsulation and abstraction will ease some of the pain, but it's more like drinking whiskey before your leg gets sawed off than it is like general anesthesia.
That sounds almost as bad as the CIHost outage where thieves sawed through the walls, stole a bunch of servers, and tazed the employee that responded to the alarm.
We just hammered and sawed stuff together.
Perhaps sawed-off barrels, or big loads.
Quote examples
A "sawed off shotgun" is legal if made one way, and 10 years prison time if made another - identical parts used either way.
In the end, police “neutralized locks and cut their way into a safe room, where Dotcom was found with what looked like a sawed-off shotgun”.
It must be Caldwell's left hand shown in the inset "Caldwell accidentally sawed off much of his left index finger with a table saw in 2001.
On the other hand if I want some intricate decorative wood carving, I'm going to seek out a guy who specializes in intricate decorative wood carving, not a guy who says "well I've never done any carving, but I've sawed, drilled and hammered lot of wood in my day and carving is basically the same thing."
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sawed in a sentence?
The poor guy had his skull sawed open and a thing pulled out of his brain.
What does sawed mean?
(transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
What part of speech is sawed?
sawed is commonly used as verb.