cut off

3 definitions found

cut off - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cut off
      adj 1: 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" [syn: severed, cut  off
             ]
      v 1: make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the
           following messages" [syn: interrupt, disrupt, break up
           , cut off]
      2: cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the
         conversation" [syn: cut, cut off]
      3: remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off
         the dead branch" [syn: cut off, chop off, lop off]
      4: cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
         [syn: cut off, cut out]
      5: break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a
         tooth" [syn: chip, knap, cut off, break off]
      6: remove surgically; "amputate limbs" [syn: amputate, cut   off
         ]

cut off - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Cut Off, LA (CDP, FIPS 18930)
    Location: 29.52941 N, 90.33464 W
    Population (1990): 5325 (1857 housing units)
    Area: 33.2 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 70345

cut off - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  231 Moby Thesaurus words for "cut off":
     abridge, abrupt, abscind, alienate, amputate, annihilate, ax, ban,
     bar, bar out, bereave, bereave of life, bereaved, bereaved of,
     bereft, bisect, bleed, block, blockade, bob, break, break off,
     butcher, carry away, carry off, carve, cast off, cast out, catch,
     chloroform, chop, cleave, clip, close off, count out, crop, cull,
     curtail, cut, cut adrift, cut away, cut down, cut in two, cut out,
     cut short, debar, delete, denuded, depart, deprive, deprive of,
     deprive of life, deprived of, destroy, dichotomize, disarticulate,
     disconnect, disendow, disengage, disentitle, disherison,
     disinherit, disjoin, disjoint, disown, dispatch, displace,
     dispose of, dispossess, disseise, dissever, dissociate, disunite,
     divest, divested, divide, divorce, do away with, do for,
     do to death, dock, drain, ease one of, eject, eliminate, embargo,
     end, enisle, enucleate, eradicate, estrange, evict, except, excise,
     exclude, execute, expel, expropriate, exsect, exterminate,
     extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fissure, foreclose,
     freeze out, gash, get rid of, hack, halve, hew, ignore, immolate,
     incise, insulate, intermit, interrupt, island, isolate, jigsaw,
     keep out, kill, knock off, lacking, lance, launch into eternity,
     lay low, leave, leave out, lighten one of, liquidate, lock out,
     lop, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, milk, mine, minus,
     mutilate, nip, omit, ostracize, out of, pare, part, parted from,
     pass over, peel, pick out, poison, preclude, prohibit, prune,
     pull away, pull back, pull out, purge, put away, put down,
     put paid to, put to death, put to sleep, reject, relegate,
     remove from life, rend, repudiate, rive, robbed of, root out,
     rule out, sacrifice, saw, scissor, scrag, segregate,
     send to Coventry, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever,
     shave, shear, shorn of, shut off, shut out, slash, slaughter, slay,
     slice, slit, snap the thread, snip, split, stamp out, stand aloof,
     stand apart, stand aside, starve, step aside, strike off, strip,
     strip off, stripped of, subtract, sunder, suspend, taboo,
     take a break, take away from, take from, take life, take off,
     take out, tap, tear, throw off, throw out, to, truncate, uncouple,
     unyoke, usurp, wanting, whittle, wipe out, withdraw