Dictionary entry details
• CUT OFF (adjective)
Meaning:
Detached by cutting
Synonyms:
cut off; severed
Context examples:
cut flowers / a severed head / an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm
Similar:
cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)
• CUT OFF (verb)
Meaning:
Make a break in
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
interrupt; disrupt; cut off; break up
Context example:
We interrupt the program for the following messages
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)
take off; take time off (take time off from work; stop working temporarily)
stop; stop over (interrupt a trip)
block; jam (interfere with or prevent the reception of signals)
come in; inject; interject; interpose; put in; throw in (to insert between other elements)
heckle (challenge aggressively)
burst in on; burst upon (spring suddenly)
barge in; break in; butt in; chime in; chisel in; cut in; put in (break into a conversation)
break; intermit; pause (cease an action temporarily)
put aside; put away (turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily)
break (interrupt the flow of current in)
punctuate (interrupt periodically)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cease, stop
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
cut off; cut
Context examples:
cut the noise / We had to cut short the conversation
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
Meaning:
Remove by or as if by cutting
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
chop off; lop off; cut off
Context examples:
cut off the ear / lop off the dead branch
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
Meaning:
Cut off and stop
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
cut out; cut off
Context example:
The bicyclist was cut out by the van
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
Meaning:
Break a small piece off from
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
knap; cut off; chip; break off
Context examples:
chip the glass / chip a tooth
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
Meaning:
Remove surgically
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
amputate; cut off
Context example:
amputate limbs
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?
