What is the meaning of cut off?

verb

  • Make a break in.
    • usage: "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
  • Cease, stop.
    • usage: "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
  • Remove by or as if by cutting.
    • usage: "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
  • Cut off and stop.
    • usage: "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
  • Break a small piece off from.
    • usage: "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
  • Remove surgically.
    • usage: "amputate limbs"

adjective

  • Detached by cutting.
    • usage: "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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