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Adjective cut off has 1 sense
- severed, 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"
Antonym: uncut (indirect, via cut)
Noun cut off has 3 senses
- cutoff - a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
--1 is a kind of limit, limitation
- shortcut, cutoff, crosscut - a route shorter than the usual one
--2 is a kind of road, route
- cutoff - a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
--3 is a kind of device
Verb cut off has 6 senses
- interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off - make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
--1 is one way to break, break off, discontinue, stop
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- cut, cut off - cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
--2 is one way to interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- cut off, chop off, lop off - remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
--3 is one way to detach, come off, come away
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- cut off, cut out - cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
--4 is one way to intercept, stop
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- chip, knap, cut off, break off - break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
--5 is one way to cut
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- amputate, cut off - remove surgically; "amputate limbs"
--6 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
Did he cut off his foot?
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