Phrasal Verb: Cut down

Meaning: Consume less

Example: I'm trying to CUT DOWN the amount of coffee I drink during the day.

Meaning: Shoot

Example: A lot of soldiers were CUT DOWN by enemy fire as they stormed the airport.

Meaning: Reduce a vertical thing to ground level by cutting

Example: The logger CUT the tree DOWN.

Meaning: Cut something from a high position

Example: After Christmas he didn't carefully detach all the decorations, he just CUT them all DOWN.