"cut to pieces" meaning in English

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      "form": "cuts to pieces",
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    {
      "form": "cutting to pieces",
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    },
    {
      "form": "cut to pieces",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "cut to pieces",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To cut, chop, slice etc. so as to form smaller pieces."
      ],
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          "cut",
          "cut"
        ],
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          "chop",
          "chop"
        ],
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          "slice",
          "slice"
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      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "katatémnō",
          "sense": "cut to form smaller pieces",
          "word": "κατατέμνω"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Papa Roach, Last Resort",
          "text": "Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort. Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Samuel John Hazo, This Part of the World: A Novel, page 91",
          "text": "You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Vice Magazine, The World According to Vice",
          "text": "Last time we played Cardiff, in the early 80s, we kicked the fuck out of them, cut them to pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Henry Montgomery, The Leading Facts of English History",
          "text": "They were hotly pursued by the English, who, having lost but a single vessel in the fight, might have cut them to pieces, had not Elizabeth's suicidal economy stinted them in body powder and provisions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards 18-20: The American Heroes Triad",
          "text": "Ana could imagine watching this on TV at home, and how exciting it must be. How gleeful the audience would be, watching Downs cut them to pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "To utterly defeat or overwhelm."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To utterly defeat or overwhelm."
      ],
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  "word": "cut to pieces"
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      "form": "cuts to pieces",
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      "form": "cut to pieces",
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        "To cut, chop, slice etc. so as to form smaller pieces."
      ],
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          "cut"
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          "chop",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Samuel John Hazo, This Part of the World: A Novel, page 91",
          "text": "You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Last time we played Cardiff, in the early 80s, we kicked the fuck out of them, cut them to pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Henry Montgomery, The Leading Facts of English History",
          "text": "They were hotly pursued by the English, who, having lost but a single vessel in the fight, might have cut them to pieces, had not Elizabeth's suicidal economy stinted them in body powder and provisions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards 18-20: The American Heroes Triad",
          "text": "Ana could imagine watching this on TV at home, and how exciting it must be. How gleeful the audience would be, watching Downs cut them to pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To utterly defeat or overwhelm."
      ],
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "katatémnō",
      "sense": "cut to form smaller pieces",
      "word": "κατατέμνω"
    }
  ],
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