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What does cut off mean?

cut off

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

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cut sever break off amputate clip separate disconnect cut out cut down stop interrupt chop break up break trim slash cut short cut away block truncate shorten prune intercept divide detach severed destroy curtail trim off tear off snip off slice off slice reap pare lop off isolate hack excise cut up cut through cut loose chop off tear asunder switch off swish off snap off remove mutilate lop

Topics cut off topics

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Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Remove, take apart

What words refer to removing a part of something?

remove removal take off detach tear off break off cut off cut away

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Movie subtitles

Why can't you cut this off?

It must be killing him. Now his whole crew is like a chicken with one of its wings cut off.

News and current affairs

With EU expansion coming next spring, all Ukrainians fear that a new wall will cut their country off from the Union's easternmost border in Poland.

Although the job of maintaining Ukraine's democracy is primarily one for Ukrainians, the EU can help if it takes practical steps to reassure Ukrainians that they won't be cut off from the rest of Europe.

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