Cutting and Tough

Cutting

Cutting adjective - Causing intense discomfort to one's skin.

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Tough and cutting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tough" instead an adjective "Cutting".

Nearby Words: cut, cutter

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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Cutting and tough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cutting" instead an adjective "Tough".

Nearby Words: toughness, toughen, toughening, tougher, toughed

old	old cutting	old tough
fast	fast cutting	fast tough
solid	solid cutting	solid tough
real	real cutting	real tough
Other adjectives: extreme, little, aggressive, spherical.

In combat, their abilities could range from easily cutting through tough foes to ineffectively shooting at an enemy with a slingshot.

Source: Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits / Film
In combat, they range in ability from cutting a bloody swath through tough foes to ineffectually plunking at them with a slingshot.

Source: Film / The Hobbit
The reason for that is because plant life in their native land is impossibly tough (when Luna saw an orc plant at one point, she thought it was the cutting board).

Source: Vegetarian Carnivore

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