Definition of Cut off

1. Verb. Make a break in. "We interrupt the program for the following messages"


2. Adjective. Detached by cutting. "An old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"
Exact synonyms: Severed
Similar to: Cut

3. Verb. Cease, stop. "We had to cut short the conversation"
Exact synonyms: Cut
Generic synonyms: Break Up, Disrupt, Interrupt

4. Verb. Remove by or as if by cutting. "Lop off the dead branch"
Exact synonyms: Chop Off, Lop Off
Specialized synonyms: Abscise, Roach
Generic synonyms: Come Away, Come Off, Detach

5. Verb. Cut off and stop. "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
Exact synonyms: Cut Out
Generic synonyms: Intercept, Stop

6. Verb. Break a small piece off from. "They cut off the glass tubes"; "Chip a tooth"
Exact synonyms: Break Off, Chip, Knap
Generic synonyms: Cut
Derivative terms: Chip, Chip, Chipping
Also: Chip At

7. Verb. Remove surgically. "Did he cut off his foot? "; "Amputate limbs"
Exact synonyms: Amputate
Category relationships: Medicine, Practice Of Medicine
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Specialized synonyms: Slough Off
Entails: Cut
Derivative terms: Amputation, Amputation, Amputator

Definition of Cut off

1. Verb. To remove via cutting. ¹

2. Verb. To isolate or remove from contact. ¹

3. Verb. To stop providing funds to someone. ¹

4. Verb. To end abruptly. ¹

5. Verb. (idiomatic) To interrupt (someone speaking). ¹

6. Verb. (idiomatic drive) To swerve in front of (another car). ¹

7. Verb. (past of cut off) ¹

8. Noun. fuse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Off

cut it
cut it close
cut it fine
cut like a knife
cut line
cut loose
cut no ice
cut of beef
cut of lamb
cut of meat
cut of mutton
cut of one's jib
cut of pork
cut of the same cloth
cut of veal
cut off (current term)
cut off one's nose to spite one's face
cut offs
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
cut one's losses
cut one's teeth
cut oneself
cut out
cut out of the same cloth
cut price
cut rate
cut red tape
cut scene

Literary usage of Cut off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... who was vice principal of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, [said] to petitioner that [he] knew said lever was too long, that he would have it cut off, ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"Checking by Cut-Off Lines. — The angles may also be checked in some cases by cutting across from one point on the traverse to another at a considerable ..."

3. The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius, Meric Casaubon (1898)
"fugitive branch which, once cut off, afterwards was graffed The reunited and restored againe: and however the soldier in^ g^An^s can tell you is not like ..."

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