Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

saw the baby in half en · VERB

Meanings

  1. Synonym of split the baby.
    • The Khrushchev government did not believe them and, after much hemming and hawing, settled on a particularly cruel way of sawing the baby in half: […] 2015, Masha Gessen, The Tsarnaev Brothers: the road to a modern tragedy:
    • Thus OKW sawed the baby in half, giving to the Army a landing force which it thought inadequate, and saddling the Navy with a transport responsibility which it thought excessively dangerous. 1967, Telford Taylor, The breaking wave: the Second World War in the summer of 1940:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
saws the baby in half Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
sawed the baby in half Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sawed the baby in half Tense=Past lexicographic
sawing the baby in half Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

split the baby