| cut off | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt | make a break in.; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
| ~ cut off, cut | cease, stop.; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation" |
| ~ break off, discontinue, stop, break | prevent completion.; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" |
| ~ punctuate | interrupt periodically.; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone" |
| ~ break | interrupt the flow of current in.; "break a circuit" |
| ~ put aside, put away | turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily.; "it's time for you to put away childish things" |
| ~ intermit, pause, break | cease an action temporarily.; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" |
| ~ butt in, chime in, chisel in, barge in, break in, cut in, put in | break into a conversation.; "her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation" |
| ~ burst in on, burst upon | spring suddenly.; "He burst upon our conversation" |
| ~ heckle | challenge aggressively. |
| ~ interject, interpose, throw in, come in, inject, put in | to insert between other elements.; "She interjected clever remarks" |
| ~ block, jam | interfere with or prevent the reception of signals.; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" |
| ~ stop over, stop | interrupt a trip.; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" |
| ~ take time off, take off | take time off from work; stop working temporarily. |
| v. (change) | 2. cut, cut off | cease, stop.; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation" |
| ~ cut off, disrupt, interrupt, break up | make a break in.; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
| v. (contact) | 3. chop off, cut off, lop off | remove by or as if by cutting.; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch" |
| ~ abscise | remove or separate by abscission. |
| ~ roach | cut the mane off (a horse). |
| ~ come away, come off, detach | come to be detached.; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery" |
| v. (contact) | 4. cut off, cut out | cut off and stop.; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van" |
| ~ intercept, stop | seize on its way.; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" |
| v. (contact) | 5. break off, chip, cut off, knap | break a small piece off from.; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 6. amputate, cut off | remove surgically.; "amputate limbs" |
| ~ practice of medicine, 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.; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ slough off | separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| adj. | 7. cut off, severed | 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" |
| ~ cut | separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists" |
Recent comments
7 weeks 6 days ago
7 weeks 6 days ago
7 weeks 6 days ago
8 weeks 4 days ago
12 weeks 5 days ago
13 weeks 5 days ago
14 weeks 3 days ago
14 weeks 4 days ago
19 weeks 11 hours ago
34 weeks 3 days ago