cut off
/ˌkʌt ˈɔf/ [ˌkɐɾ ˈɔf] verb- To remove by cutting.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To exclude (something) from the field of view. · Half of his head has been cut off by the edge of the photo.
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone). · His parents cut him off to encourage him to find a job.· You're drunk, Jerry, I'm cutting you off.
- To end abruptly. · My phone call was cut off before I could get the information.
- To interrupt (someone speaking). · That dingbat cut me off as I was about to conclude my thesis.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
From the library
Two began in a low voice, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a _red_ rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know.
The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at _his_ time of life.
Thomas’s father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with its head cut off hanging by a strip of skin.
Your hair must be cut off; there is no other way.
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