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; to 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.