Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Held down
Both terms in one sentence
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In an issue of Young Justice, students from an all-girls school held down Red Tornado's adopted daughter (and former heroine Arrowette, who tried to intervene) and cut off some of the girl's hair.
Source: Would Hit a Girl
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