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cut_off
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[ verb ] make a break in
Examples "We interrupt the program for the following messages" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)Despite Company threats , duly carried_through , to cut_off supplies of powder , ball , and thread for fishing_nets , about 350 persons stayed in the village . (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)He pointed , cutting her off . (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)The cloudburst cut_off abruptly . |
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[ verb ] cease, stop
Synonyms Examples : "cut the noise" "We had to cut short the conversation" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Moreover , the diabetic patient who relies_on cure by the quack device and therefore cuts_off his insulin intake can be committing suicide . |
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[ verb ] remove by or as if by cutting
Examples "cut off the ear" "lop off the dead branch" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)As_soon_as an experimental tug assures you that roots have taken_over , cut it off from the mother plant . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)The affixed elements of collage were extruded , as_it_were , and cut_off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief . |
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[ adjective ] detached by cutting
Synonyms 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" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)With their customary source of supply cut_off , the Fort_Garry free_traders engaged three men to cart goods to them from the Mississippi country . Related terms |
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