cut off

adjective

  1. 1

    detached by cutting

    cut flowers

    a severed head

verb

  1. 1

    cease, stop

    cut the noise

    We had to cut short the conversation

  2. 2

    make a break in

    We interrupt the program for the following messages

  3. 3

    remove surgically

    amputate limbs

  4. 4

    break a small piece off from

    chip the glass

    chip a tooth

  5. 5

    remove by or as if by cutting

    cut off the ear

    lop off the dead branch

  6. 6

    cut off and stop

    The bicyclist was cut out by the van

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