cut through
phrasal verbcut through something
- to go through something in order to make your route shorter
- I cut through the building site to the river.
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- (also cut something through something)to make a path or passage through something by cutting
- They used a machete to cut through the bush.
- The prisoners cut their way through the barbed wire.