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What is the verb for saws?

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saw
  1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
  2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
  3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
  4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “If you saw a tree down, you should also excavate its root system to prevent it from growing back.”
      “I saw the snow-capped mountains from inside my car.”
      “Last night, I saw the lunar eclipse occurring before my very eyes.”
sawe
  1. Obsolete spelling of saw simple past tense of see
sawing
saw
  1. simple past tense of see
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If you saw a tree down, you should also excavate its root system to prevent it from growing back.”
      “I saw the snow-capped mountains from inside my car.”
      “Last night, I saw the lunar eclipse occurring before my very eyes.”
sawest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of saw
  2. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of see
  3. Examples:
    1. “Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.”
      “Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort her.”
saws
sawed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of saw
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fact that these ancones have not yet been sawed off, is an indicator of the unfinished state of the temple.”
      “I took an empty clear plastic 750 ml Coke bottle for each one, screwed the top on firmly and made a small hole in it, then sawed off the base.”
      “The escapees sawed through bars in the exercise yard to gain their freedom.”
sawed
  1. (humorous) simple past tense of see
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fact that these ancones have not yet been sawed off, is an indicator of the unfinished state of the temple.”
      “I took an empty clear plastic 750 ml Coke bottle for each one, screwed the top on firmly and made a small hole in it, then sawed off the base.”
      “The escapees sawed through bars in the exercise yard to gain their freedom.”
sawn
  1. past participle of saw
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A plank fifty feet long and eight inches thick could be sawn on both edges in less than five minutes!”
      “Arriving in Quebec City the logs were sawn into lumber and shipped around the world.”
      “This code applies to all sawmills engaged in the sawing of round logs and flitches of all timber species, into sawn timber.”
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