cut off Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb make a break in
interrupt; disrupt; break up.
- We interrupt the program for the following messages
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verb cease, stop
cut.
- cut the noise
- We had to cut short the conversation
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verb remove by or as if by cutting
chop off; lop off.
- cut off the ear
- lop off the dead branch
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verb cut off and stop
cut out.
- The bicyclist was cut out by the van
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verb break a small piece off from
knap; chip; break off.
- chip the glass
- chip a tooth
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verb remove surgically
amputate.
- amputate limbs
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adjective satellite detached by cutting
severed.
- cut flowers
- a severed head
- an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm