cut off

1. Detached by cutting (synset 300665505)
   "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"
   similar to: cut - separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
   same as: severed

1. Make a break in (synset 200780320)
   "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
   is a type of: break, break off, discontinue, stop - prevent completion
   subtypes:

   • cut, cut off - cease, stop
   • punctuate - interrupt periodically
   • break - interrupt the flow of current in
   • put aside, put away - turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
   • break, intermit, pause - cease an action temporarily
   • barge in, break in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put in - break into a conversation
   • burst in on, burst upon - spring suddenly
   • heckle - challenge aggressively
   • come in, inject, interject, interpose, put in, throw in - to insert between other elements
   • block, jam - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
   • stop, stop over - interrupt a trip
   • take off, take time off - take time off from work; stop working temporarily
   same as: break up, disrupt, interrupt
2. Cease, stop (synset 200293269)
   "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
   is a type of: break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt - make a break in
   same as: cut
3. Remove by or as if by cutting (synset 201301854)
   "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
   is a type of: come away, come off, detach - come to be detached
   subtypes:

   • abscise - remove or separate by abscission
   • roach - cut the mane off (a horse)
   same as: chop off, lop off
4. Cut off and stop (synset 201443265)
   "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
   is a type of: intercept, stop - seize on its way
   same as: cut out
5. Break a small piece off from (synset 201262022)
   "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
   is a type of: cut - separate with or as if with an instrument
   same as: break off, chip, knap
6. Remove surgically (synset 201257256)
   "amputate limbs"
   referred to in: medicine, practice of medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
   entail: cut - separate with or as if with an instrument
   is a type of: remove, take, take away, withdraw - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
   subtypes: slough off - separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
   same as: amputate

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