cut off

verbs

make a break in
"We interrupt the program for the following messages"
break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt
cease, stop
"cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
cut, cut off
remove by or as if by cutting
"cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
chop off, cut off, lop off
cut off and stop
"The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
cut off, cut out
break a small piece off from
"chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
break off, chip, cut off, knap
remove surgically
"amputate limbs"
amputate, cut off

adjectives

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"
cut off, severed