Definition of "cut off" []

• To remove via cutting. (verb)
• To isolate or remove from contact. (verb)
• To stop providing funds to someone. (verb)
• To end abruptly. (verb)
• To interrupt (someone speaking). (verb)

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• "Of the Gentile Church before admission to Christianity, he says its members had been "strangers to the covenants of the promise", consequently cut off from all hope."
• "Among Dr. Waguih William IsHak's advice: avoid road rage at all costs, apologize profusely to anyone you accidentally cut off in traffic, be sure to leave for your destination with a full tank of gas and a cell phone."
• "Around him, the city was utterly silent, wrapped in its cotton-wool wadding of mists, like something set adrift, cut off from all space and all time."