MEANING
1. To cut down with a scythe or move through something with a broad cutting sweep.
2. A tool with a long curved blade on a long handle used to cut grass or crops.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- scythe grass
- scythe through a line
On the page
He scythed the long grass around the abandoned shed.
The blast scythed through the line of empty chairs.
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Related words
Word forms
- Base
- scythe
- Past tense
- scythed
- Past participle
- scythed
- Present participle
- scything
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- scythe
- Present continuous
- am/is/are scything
- Present perfect
- have/has scythed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been scything
- Past
- scythed
- Past continuous
- was/were scything
- Past perfect
- had scythed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been scything
- Future
- will scythe
- Future continuous
- will be scything
- Future perfect
- will have scythed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been scything
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: scythe; scythes; scythed; scythed; scything Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: scythes.
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