cut off

make a break in

• “We interrupt the program for the following messages”

cease, stop

• “cut the noise”
• “We had to cut short the conversation”

remove by or as if by cutting

• “cut off the ear”
• “lop off the dead branch”

cut off and stop

• “The bicyclist was cut out by the van”

break a small piece off from

• “chip the glass”
• “chip a tooth”

remove surgically

• “amputate limbs”

detached by cutting

• “cut flowers”
• “a severed head”
• “an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm”