cut_off

[cut_off]

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"

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Verb
cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"

Verb
make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

Verb
remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

Verb
break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

Verb
remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"

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Verb
cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"

Adjective S.
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"


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Usage Examples

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

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