cut-off

  • (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
    severed,

Verbs

  • (v) make a break in
    • We interrupt the program for the following messages
    disrupt, interrupt, break up,
  • (v) cease, stop
    • cut the noise
    • We had to cut short the conversation
    cut,
  • (v) remove by or as if by cutting
    • cut off the ear
    • lop off the dead branch
    chop off, lop off,
  • (v) cut off and stop
    • The bicyclist was cut out by the van
    cut out,
  • (v) break a small piece off from
    • chip the glass
    • chip a tooth
    knap, break off, chip,
  • (v) remove surgically
    • amputate limbs
    amputate,

Synonyms

severed disrupt interrupt break up cut chop off lop off cut out knap break off chip amputate

See also

disrupt interrupt break up chip at carve

Words of close approximity

cut out