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Princeton's WordNet

  1. severed, cut offverb

    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"

  2. interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut offverb

    make a break in

    "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

  3. cut, cut offverb

    cease, stop

    "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"

  4. cut off, chop off, lop offverb

    remove by or as if by cutting

    "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"

  5. cut off, cut outverb

    cut off and stop

    "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"

  6. chip, knap, cut off, break offverb

    break a small piece off from

    "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

  7. amputate, cut offverb

    remove surgically

    "amputate limbs"

Wiktionary

  1. cut offnoun

    fuse.

  2. cut offverb

    To remove via cutting.

  3. cut offverb

    To isolate or remove from contact.

  4. cut offverb

    To stop providing funds to someone.

  5. cut offverb

    To end abruptly.

  6. cut offverb

    To interrupt (someone speaking).

  7. cut offverb

    To swerve in front of (another car).

ChatGPT

  1. cut off

    Cut off generally refers to the act of stopping or discontinuing something abruptly. It can apply to various situations such as terminating a supply, interrupting someone while speaking, ending a process or connection, or creating a boundary or limit. The specific interpretation depends on the context in which the term is used.

Wikidata

  1. Cut Off

    Cut Off is a census-designated place on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,635 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cut Off's ZIP code is 70345, the area code is 985 and local telephone prefixes are 325, 632 and 693.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. cut off

    A term used to denote a vessel's being seized by stratagem by the natives, and the crew being murdered. Also, to intercept a retreat.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cut off in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cut off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of cut off in a Sentence

  1. Geoff Porter:

    More often than not, when the head of the snake is cut off, a more venomous one grows in its place, that is certainly a possibility here –- and there are no shortage of aspiring jihadis who are likely eager to pick up Belmokhtar's mantle.

  2. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager:

    That's why we're looking closely at Google's contracts with phone makers and operators which use the Android operating system, our concern is that, by requiring phone makers and operators to pre-load a set of Google apps, rather than letting them decide for themselves which apps to load, Google might have cut off one of the main ways that new apps can reach customers.

  3. Donald Trump:

    I'd go through a process and get it declassified frankly ... certainly waterboarding at a minimum, they're chopping off heads of Christians and many other people in the Middle East. They're chopping heads off, they laugh at us when they hear we're not going to approve waterboarding and then they'll have a James Foley and others where they cut off their heads.

  4. Nick Carlsen:

    North Korea is, in most respects, cut off from the global financial system by a long sanctions campaign by the US and foreign partners. as a result they have taken to the digital battlefield to steal crypto in, essentially, [ a ] bank robbery at the speed of the internet, to fund weapons programs, nuclear proliferation and other destabilizing activities.

  5. John Yoo:

    If a Donald Trump administration cut off immigration from certain countries, rather than certain religions, it would not violate the Constitution.


Translations for cut off

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  • قطعArabic
  • abschneiden, unterbrechen, abbrechen, schneidenGerman
  • keskeyttää, katkaista, sulake, eristääFinnish
  • couperFrench
  • bevág, kikapcsolHungarian
  • trancharIdo
  • tagliareItalian
  • 割り込む, 断つJapanese
  • rozłączać, rozłączyć, odcinać, odciąćPolish
  • recortar, cortarPortuguese
  • opriRomanian
  • перебить, прерва́ть, подре́зать, прерыва́ть, подтезать, изоли́ровать, отре́зать, перебива́ть, отреза́тьRussian
  • перебитиUkrainian
  • cắtVietnamese

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