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1. A designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
    
2. A route shorter than the usual one
   - shortcut, crosscut
    
3. A device that terminates the flow in a pipe

1. Make a break in
   "We cut off the program for the following messages"
   - interrupt, disrupt, break up
    
2. Cease, stop
   "cut off the noise"
   - cut
    
3. Remove by or as if by cutting
   "cut off the ear"
   - chop off, lop off
    
4. Cut off and stop
   "The bicyclist was cut off by the van"
   - cut out
    
5. Break a small piece off from
   "cut off the glass"
   - chip, knap, break off
    
6. Remove surgically
   "cut off limbs"
   - amputate

1. Detached by cutting
   "a cut off head"
   - severed

Derived forms: cuts off, cut off, cutting off, cutoffs

See also: cut

Type of: break, break off, come away, come off, cut, detach, device, discontinue, intercept, limit, limitation, remove, road, route, stop, take, take away, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Cut off