What does cutting off mean?

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cut·ting off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. abscission, cutting offnoun

    the act of cutting something off

  2. cut, cutting, cutting offnoun

    the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends

    "the barber gave him a good cut"

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  1. cutting off

    Cutting off generally refers to the act of stopping or ending something abruptly or suddenly. It can apply to various contexts, such as interrupting a conversation, disconnecting a service, separating from an individual or group, or stopping the supply of something.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cutting off in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cutting off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of cutting off in a Sentence

  1. Jim Worthington:

    The battle lines are drawn, if you like President Trump, you think President Trump's done all the things right, like cutting off travel to China. If you're a Democrat, you think the opposite.

  2. President Barack Obama:

    Our goal has to be militarily constraining ISIL's capabilities, cutting off their supply lines, cutting off their financing.

  3. Edward J. Burns:

    This was supposed to be a cooperative process, not an adversarial one, but the abrupt cutting off of this process through this raid was a direct affront to this necessary notion of cooperation.

  4. Ime Archibong:

    We are cutting off API access for hundreds of thousands of inactive apps that have not submitted for our app review process.

  5. Scott Modell:

    How do they allow Venezuelan oil to continue to flow, while cutting off the flow of money back to Maduro and the government? That's the general playbook they have been using for Iran, and the one they are trying to adapt to Venezuela now.

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