Definition: cease, stop
Usage: cut the noise; We had to cut short the conversation
Main entry: interrupt, break up, disrupt, cut off
Definition: make a break in
Usage: We interrupt the program for the following messages
Definition: remove surgically
Usage: amputate limbs
Main entry: chip, break off, knap, cut off
Definition: break a small piece off from
Usage: chip the glass; chip a tooth
Main entry: cut off, lop off, chop off
Definition: remove by or as if by cutting
Usage: cut off the ear; lop off the dead branch
Definition: cut off and stop
Usage: The bicyclist was cut out by the van
Definition: detached by cutting
Usage: cut flowers; a severed head; an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm