cut off Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make a break in
    interrupt; disrupt; break up.
    • We interrupt the program for the following messages
  2. verb cease, stop
    cut.
    • cut the noise
    • We had to cut short the conversation
  3. verb remove by or as if by cutting
    chop off; lop off.
    • cut off the ear
    • lop off the dead branch
  4. verb cut off and stop
    cut out.
    • The bicyclist was cut out by the van
  5. verb break a small piece off from
    knap; chip; break off.
    • chip the glass
    • chip a tooth
  6. verb remove surgically
    amputate.
    • amputate limbs
  7. 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

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