: a hand or power tool or a machine used to cut hard material (such as wood, metal, or bone) and equipped usually with a toothed blade or disk
1
: to cut with a saw
2
: to produce or form by cutting with a saw
3
: to slash as though with a saw
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a
: to use a saw
b
: to cut with or as if with a saw
2
: to undergo cutting with a saw
3
: to make motions as though using a saw
sawed at the reins
Examples of saw in a Sentence
Verb
He sawed the boards in half.
This blade is too dull for sawing.
Noun
it's an old saw that a red sunset presages fair skies the next day
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Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Just as a conjurer saws a lady in half, the movie keeps dividing its characters and relationships.
—Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
In the clip, which sees Reid's Lestat singing and sawing a violin, fans are treated to a brief snippet of Lestat's anthemic music.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
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Noun
An investigation determined that two doors at the museum were cut open with a circular saw.
—Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Just as a conjurer saws a lady in half, the movie keeps dividing its characters and relationships.
—Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
Strings play a unison A that quavers under the pressure of sawing bows.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
In the clip, which sees Reid's Lestat singing and sawing a violin, fans are treated to a brief snippet of Lestat's anthemic music.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Saw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saw. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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