schneiden

Pronunciation: /ˈʃnaɪ̯dən/

“schneiden” is a German word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

to cut; to carve; to slice
to pare; to clip; to mow; to prune; to trim
to cut (someone) off; to cut in on (someone)
to edit
to intersect
to cut (oneself)
to delude (oneself); to become mistaken; (in the perfect tenses) to be deluded, to have another think coming
to avoid someone (to cut someone)

Etymology

From Middle High German snīden, from Old High German snīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *snīþan (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch snijden (“to cut, carve, intersect”), Low German snieden (“to cut”), dialectal English snithe (“to cut”) (related to snide), Swedish snida (“to carve, engrave”), Icelandic sníða (“to trim, tailor”).

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