Cut
Cut verb - To penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife).
Trigger
Trigger verb - To cause to function.
Usage example: mold triggers my allergies
Common collocations
| scenes | cut scenes | trigger scenes |
Both words in one sentence
- At one point in The Thrawn Trilogy, a stormtrooper cut down by Luke Skywalker's lightsaber is mentioned to have squeezed down on the trigger as he died, randomly firing his blaster.
Source: Dead Man's Trigger Finger - In Shoot 'em Up, Hertz tortures Smith by breaking his trigger fingers and then threatens to cut his eyes out.
Source: Crippling the Competition -
Crippling the Competition: Hertz tortures Smith by breaking his trigger fingers and then threatens to cut his eyes out.
Source: Film / Shoot 'em Up
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Trigger and Cut. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/trigger
Cut & Trigger. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/trigger>.
Trigger or Cut. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/trigger.
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