cut out
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
(STOP WORKING)
If an engine, machine, or piece of equipment cuts out, it suddenly stops working:
One of the plane's engines cut out, so they had to land with only one.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- act
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- disable
- fritz
- give up the ghost idiom
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
- wrong
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