cut sth off
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
(REMOVE)
A2 to remove a part of something to make it smaller or shorter, using a sharp tool such as a knife:
Remember to cut off the fat before you fry the steak.
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- They cut off all the overhanging branches.
- He had his hand cut off in an industrial accident.
- He cut off his hair for charity.
- I cut the peel off the orange.
- We had to cut off the bed's legs to get it through the door.
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Cutting and stabbing
- abrasion
- bayonet
- carve
- carving
- chisel
- coppice
- cut sth down
- lance
- mow
- nick
- notch
- prune
- saw sth down
- scratch
- slash
- slice
- spike
- trim
- whittle
- woodcarving
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(STOP)
B2 to stop providing something such as electricity, supplies, etc.:
If this bill is not paid within five days, your gas supply will be cut off.
The aim was to cut off the enemy's escape route/supplies.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- let sb be idiom
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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