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CUT OFF
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Detached by cutting
Example:
an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm
Synonyms:
cut off; severed
Classified under:
Similar:
cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cease, stop
Example:
We had to cut short the conversation
Synonyms:
cut; cut off
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut off" is one way to...):
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make a break in
Example:
We interrupt the program for the following messages
Synonyms:
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "cut off" is one way to...):
break; break off; discontinue; stop (prevent completion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut off"):
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)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Remove surgically
Example:
amputate limbs
Synonyms:
amputate; cut off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut off" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
"Cut off" entails doing...:
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Domain category:
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)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut off"):
slough off (separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Did he cut off his foot?
Sense 4
Meaning:
Break a small piece off from
Example:
chip a tooth
Synonyms:
break off; chip; cut off; knap
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut off" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Remove by or as if by cutting
Example:
lop off the dead branch
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut off" is one way to...):
come away; come off; detach (come to be detached)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut off"):
abscise (remove or separate by abscission)
roach (cut the mane off (a horse))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Cut off and stop
Example:
The bicyclist was cut out by the van
Synonyms:
cut off; cut out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut off" is one way to...):
intercept; stop (seize on its way)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
I was now, it seemed, cut off upon both sides; behind me the murderers, before me this lurking nondescript.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A procedure to keep a tissue or organ cool while the blood supply at that site is temporarily decreased or cut off during surgery.
(Cold Ischemia During Surgery, NCI Thesaurus)
In surgery, the cooling of a tissue, organ, or body part after its blood supply has been reduced or cut off.
(Cold ischemia, NCI Dictionary)
I remember that I thought it, in form, more like a riding-habit with the superfluous skirt cut off, than anything else.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When the war broke out in ’93 I was cut off from them for nine years.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is a harsh man; at once pompous and meddling; he cut off our hair; and for economy's sake bought us bad needles and thread, with which we could hardly sew.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Put one in mine then, that I wish all my curls cut off, and given round to my friends.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
To have such a fine young man cut off in the flower of his days is most melancholy.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Half a dozen natural children, perhaps—and poor Frank cut off!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He thrust her off with his shoulder, and, his retreat cut off and still intent on regaining the sled, he altered his course in an attempt to circle around to it.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
