Definition of "cutting off" [cutting off]

• Present participle of cut off. (verb)

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• "“There are now but few upon the Island, and it hath been generally observed,” claimed the pamphlet with a terrible condescension, “that where the English come to setle, a Divine Hand makes way for them, by removing or cutting off the Indians, either by Wars one with the other, or by some raging mortal Disease.”"
• "But a nearby river miraculously rose, cutting off the soldiers and allowing Perdiccas and his brothers to escape to the hills of Pieria north of Mount Olympus."
• "As if he could sense my tension, the driver hammered down on the wheel and the taxi shimmied across two lanes of speeding traffic before easing balletically and near-suicidally into the left lane, neatly cutting off an eighteen-wheeler."