cut off

• POS: Noun Phrase, Verb (transitive)

THESAURUS

cut off

abridge, abrupt, abscind, alienate, amputate, annihilate, ax, ban, bar, bar out, bereave, bereave of life, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, bisect, bleed, block, blockade, bob, break, break off, butcher, carry away, carry off, carve, cast off, cast out, catch, chloroform, chop, cleave, clip, close off, count out, crop, cull, curtail, cut, cut adrift, cut away, cut down, cut in two, cut out, cut short, debar, delete, denuded, depart, deprive, deprive of, deprive of life, deprived of, destroy, dichotomize, disarticulate, disconnect, disendow, disengage, disentitle, disherison, disinherit, disjoin, disjoint, disown, dispatch, displace, dispose of, dispossess, disseise, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divest, divested, divide, divorce, do away with, do for, do to death, dock, drain, ease one of, eject, eliminate, embargo, end, enisle, enucleate, eradicate, estrange, evict, except, excise, exclude, execute, expel, expropriate, exsect, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fissure, foreclose, freeze out, gash, get rid of, hack, halve, hew, ignore, immolate, incise, insulate, intermit, interrupt, island, isolate, jigsaw, keep out, kill, knock off, lacking, lance, launch into eternity, lay low, leave, leave out, lighten one of, liquidate, lock out, lop, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, milk, mine, minus, mutilate, nip, omit, ostracize, out of, pare, part, parted from, pass over, peel, pick out, poison, preclude, prohibit, prune, pull away, pull back, pull out, purge, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to sleep, reject, relegate, remove from life, rend, repudiate, rive, robbed of, root out, rule out, sacrifice, saw, scissor, scrag, segregate, send to Coventry, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shave, shear, shorn of, shut off, shut out, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, snap the thread, snip, split, stamp out, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, starve, step aside, strike off, strip, strip off, stripped of, subtract, sunder, suspend, taboo, take a break, take away from, take from, take life, take off, take out, tap, tear, throw off, throw out, to, truncate, uncouple, unyoke, usurp, wanting, whittle, wipe out, withdraw

ROGET THESAURUS

cut off

Subtraction

VB subduct, subtract, deduct, deduce, bate, retrench, remove, withdraw, take from, take away, detract, garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate, cut off, cut away, cut out, abscind, excise, pare, thin, prune, decimate, abrade, scrape, file, geld, castrate, eliminate, diminish, curtail, deprive of, weaken.

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Hindrance

VB hinder, impede, filibuster, impedite, embarrass, keep off, stave off, ward off, obviate, avert, antevert, turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud, retard, slacken, check, let, counteract, countercheck, preclude, debar, foreclose, estop, inhibit, shackle, restrict, obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock, block, block up, choke off, belay, barricade, block the way, bar the way, stop the way, forelay, dam up, put on the brake, scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel, put a stop to, traverse, contravene, interrupt, intercept, oppose, hedge in, hedge round, cut off, inerclude, interpose, interfere, intermeddle, cramp, hamper, clog, clog the wheels, cumber, encumber, incumber, handicap, choke, saddle with, load with, overload, lay, lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience, incommode, discommode, discompose, hustle, corner, drive into a corner, run foul of, fall foul of, cross the path of, break in upon, thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil, faze, feaze, feeze, baffle, snub, override, circumvent, defeat, spike guns, spoil, mar, clip the wings of, cripple, put an extinguisher on, damp, dishearten, discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport, lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on, cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine, be in the way of, stand in the way of, act as a drag, hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Loss

N loss, deperdition, perdition, forfeiture, lapse, privation, bereavement, deprivation, riddance, damage, squandering, waste, losing, not having, shorn of, deprived of, denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off, dispossessed, rid of, quit of, out of pocket, lost, long lost, irretrievable, off one's hands, Int, farewell to!, adieu to.

Killing

VB kill, put to death, slay, shed blood, murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate, massacre, take away life, deprive of life, make away with, put an end to, despatch, dispatch, burke, settle, do for, strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown, saber, cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat, jugulate, stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate, put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword, shoot dead, blow one's brains out, brain, knock on the head, stone, lapidate, give a deathblow, deal a deathblow, give a quietus, give a coupe de grace, behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas, hunt, shoot, cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of, give no quarter, pour out blood like water, decimate, run amuck, wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, die a violent death, welter in one's blood, dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains, commit suicide, kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.