to cut
- verb
- /kʌt/
- UK
- Father had cut her off.
- cut ties
- feel cut
Examples
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And it was like I just had to cut her off.
Academic text (2012) -
She cut me off when I told Tara about Billy.
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My parents cut me off.
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I'm gonna cut you off.
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Don't cut me off, this is an emergency.
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But Rosemary, eager to renew her pursuit of Gibson, cut David off in midsentence.
Fiction book (1990) -
At the party, he completely ignored me and chose to cut me dead.
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When she walked by without acknowledging his greeting, he felt that she had decided to cut him dead.
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After their argument, she started to cut him dead in public, refusing to even look at him.
Synonyms
Choose not to pay attention to someone or something
Ignore something or someone on purpose
To ignore someone on purpose to show disrespect
Antonyms
Idioms
Deliberately do something that hurts you more than the person you want to punish
- Informal
To become independent from your parents and live on your own
- Informal
To become independent from parents and make your own decisions
- Australian
To criticize someone who stands out to make them seem less successful
- Informal
To check something carefully before you do it to avoid mistakes
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To do something quickly or cheaply by skipping important steps so the result is lower quality
- Informal
To have fun and act without control, or to remove someone from their job
- Informal
To leave very little time before something happens and risk being late
- Informal
To make someone less proud by showing they are not as good as they think
- Jargon
To make a message clear so people notice it despite distractions
Make speech or writing clearer by removing complicated management language
Compounds
- Specialized
A sudden change between two film shots that makes action or time seem to skip
- Specialized
A short announcement that interrupts a program to give local news or alerts
An event when shops sell goods at much lower prices for a short time to clear old stock
- Specialized
A sudden cut between shots in a film that shows time passing or makes the action jump
How Friendly
- UK
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cut someone dead is a phrase that uses the image of a sharp break, like drawing a line, which is why it means to refuse to recognize a person on purpose.