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cut someone off1Interrupt someone while they are speaking: he cut her off and went on to another subject...- And I will be insufferable here and cut you off, take a break.
- ‘Wait a minute,’ Matt cut her off, sounding serious now.
- The question that I would raise, and I've got to cut you off because we need to get a break, is how much the media should go along with it.
1.1Interrupt someone during a telephone call by breaking the connection: I listened to pre-recorded messages for twenty-three minutes before being cut off...- After three minutes with the automated operator the Yorkshire Post was cut off at 11.17 am yesterday with the message: ‘I'm sorry our operators are busy.’
- Now, I am anxious not to cut you off, but from time to time I may interrupt you to try to make sure that I grasp the point that you are advancing and, in effect, play it back to you to make sure that I understand what you are trying to tell me.
- The machine cut her off then (thank god) the whirring stopped.
2Prevent someone from receiving or being provided with something, especially power or water: consumers may be cut off for non-payment...- Some residents are illegally reconnecting their water supplies after they were cut off by the council due to non-payment, municipal finance director Brian Shepherd said in a report tabled before a council meeting.
- The Psychic Friends Network just cut me off for nonpayment.
- Hall has been living without electricity, gas or water in the flat for nearly a week after they were cut off on the orders of police.
Synonyms discontinue, break off, disconnect, interrupt, suspend; stop, end, bring to an end 3Reject someone as one’s heir; disinherit someone: Gabrielle’s family cut her off without a penny...- So after the Gulf War they cut him off without a penny.
- Now you fix this situation and you do it quickly or so help me, I'll cut you off without a penny.
- Well maybe I wouldn't have to work here if you hadn't cut me off without a penny!
Synonyms disinherit, disown, repudiate, reject, have nothing more to do with, have done with, wash one's hands of 4Prevent someone from having access to somewhere or someone; isolate someone from something they previously had connections with: the couple were cut off by a fast-moving tide...- Traffic along 16th Ave was very backed up and congested as access to Memorial Drive was cut off.
- But this isolation cuts them off from social networks and cultural capital that are indispensable for survival and success at all levels of the workplace.
- Although he had stepped down from the editorship, his supervisors at the Smithsonian took away his office, made him turn in his keys, and cut him off from access to the collections he needs for his research.
Synonyms isolate, separate, keep apart, keep away; seclude, closet, cloister, sequester See parent entry: cut |