cut sb/sth off
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
B2 to cause a person or place to become separate, or cause someone to be or feel alone:
When his wife died, he cut himself off from other people.
Many villages have been cut off by the heavy snow.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Isolating and separating
- compartmentalize
- cone
- cone sth off
- cordon
- cordon sth off
- demarcate
- divide
- insulate
- insulator
- intersect
- isolate
- isolation
- mark sth off
- seclude
- segregate
- separate
- separately
- sequester
- wrenching
- zonal
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