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CUT OFF

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Detached by cuttingplay

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:

Adjectives

Similar:

cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cease, stopplay

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 inplay

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 surgicallyplay

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 fromplay

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 cuttingplay

Example:

lop off the dead branch

Synonyms:

chop off; cut off; lop off

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 stopplay

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

Credits

 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)




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