What does cutting off mean?
Definitions for cutting off
cut·ting off
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Princeton's WordNet
abscission, cutting offnoun
the act of cutting something off
cut, cutting, cutting offnoun
the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
"the barber gave him a good cut"
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cutting off
Cutting off generally refers to the act of stopping or ending something abruptly or suddenly. It can apply to various contexts, such as interrupting a conversation, disconnecting a service, separating from an individual or group, or stopping the supply of something.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cutting off in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cutting off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of cutting off in a Sentence
Hong Kong epidemiologist Yuen Kwok-yung:
So in Hong Kong, Hong Kong experts and authorities might have a third wave of cases coming from the mainland after a second wave... The epidemic is still serious in the society. At this stage, it is still not optimistic. What worries me the most is inadequate testing on patients with mild symptoms, which prevents Hong Kong experts and authorities from cutting off the chain of transmission.
This was supposed to be a cooperative process, not an adversarial one, but the abrupt cutting off of this process through this raid was a direct affront to this necessary notion of cooperation.
Cutting off funding to districts which choose to require masking to prevent the spread of Covid-19, a potentially deadly communicable disease, would violate the states' paramount duty' to educate all children, not just the unmasked.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev:
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
We're cutting off our nose to spite our face. The very things (Trump's) complaining about, will make it tougher for us to do.
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