if someone or something cuts you off when you are talking on the telephone, they make the telephone line stop working
same as cut
to do something that is intended to harm someone even though you know that it will harm you too
to make a place difficult or impossible to enter, leave, or communicate with
to not allow someone to buy any more alcoholic drinks in a bar because they have already drunk too many
to prevent someone from continuing what they are saying
to prevent someone from ever receiving your money or property
to prevent someone from leaving a place, or from communicating with people in another place
to remove something by cutting it
to stop having a close or friendly relationship with someone
to stop someone from going somewhere, especially by blocking their way
A second policeman cut off his escape.
A torso with the left leg missing, the right cut off at the thigh, no arms, no head.
But the overall impression, when she stepped from her cut-off jeans and slid down her panties, was wonderful.
Cut the tops off the carrots.
Don’t cut me off when I’m talking.
Having a new baby can cut a young mother off from the adult world.
Her father cut her off without a penny.
Nick was smoking, wearing wet cut-off jeans, his body skinny and pale.
Our house is cut off from the rest of the town.
She fought her way down it to the fence which cut off both gardens from the motor road.
She struggled to shout, but the hand covered her mouth, almost cut off her breath.
The floods completely cut off the town.
The government has threatened to cut off our funding.
The table lurched as a young man in cut-off faded jeans leant his weight on it.
They cut off the electricity last week.
Unfortunately, the part they had to cut off was... Ew, I don't even like writing it.
We got cut off in the middle of the call.
Why did all his friends suddenly cut him off?
Why did you cut off all your hair?
cuts off
cutting off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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