cutting off

Questions about cutting off

What does cutting off mean?

cutting off means "the act of cutting something off". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cutting off?

Close synonyms include abscission, cut, cutting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cutting off a common word?

cutting off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.