cut off

Adjective

• 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
    

Verb

• remove surgically
  • amputate limbs
    

• break a small piece off from
  • chip the glass
    
  • chip a tooth
    

• cut off and stop
  • The bicyclist was cut out by the van
    

• remove by or as if by cutting
  • cut off the ear
    
  • lop off the dead branch
    

• cease, stop
  • cut the noise
    
  • We had to cut short the conversation
    

• make a break in
  • We interrupt the program for the following messages
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  severed , amputate , chip , knap , break off , cut out , chop off , lop off , cut , interrupt , disrupt , break up