📖 Definitions of "Cut off"
verb
- 1
To remove via cutting.
- 2
To isolate or remove from contact.
- 3
To stop providing funds to (someone).
"His parents cut him off to encourage him to find a job."
- 4
To end abruptly.
"My phone call was cut off before I could get the information."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cut off"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| severed | Separated, cut off or broken apart. |
| break upverb | (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship. |
| amputateverb | To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb. [from 17th c.] |
| break offverb | (transitive) To discontinue abruptly. |
| lop offverb | (transitive) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. |
| interruptverb | (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking. |
| chipnoun | A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material. |
| cut outverb | (transitive) To remove; to omit. |
| cutverb | (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something. |
| disruptverb | (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder. |
| knapnoun | (transitive) To break (something) into small pieces with a cracking sound; to fragment, to smash; also, to break (something) apart sharply; to snap. |
| chop offverb | (transitive, literally) To sever by chopping or as if by chopping. |
| offcutnoun | A piece that has been cut off of a larger piece when not needed; surplus. |
| cut awayverb | (recorded media) To fail to show something; to stop before showing something; to leave a scene; to switch to a different scene quickly. |
| exectnoun | (transitive, obsolete) To cut off or out. |
| absciseverb | (transitive) To cut off. |
| excideverb | (transitive) To cut off. |
| abscissnoun | Alternative form of abscissa [(geometry) The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.] |
| overcutnoun | The act or result of excessive cutting. |
| saw offverb | To cut off with a saw. |
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