cut out🔊

(out) To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.

(informal) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).

To remove, omit.

To oust, to replace.

(NZ) To separate (an animal) from the herd.

To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.

To leave suddenly.

(in passive) To arrange or prepare.

To intercept.

(nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.

(slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.

(chiefly in the negative) Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.