Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Part
Part verb - To set or force apart.
Usage example: parted the prongs with pliers
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- This happened a second time, after he reintegrated a part of him cut off by the Great China Firewall and discovered the part of him that was cut off actually drove several people to suicide in China.
Source: Literature / WWW Trilogy -
One of them replaces your hands with long, thin sticks that instantly cut off every part they touch - essentially, swords.
Source: Detachment Combat -
The goal is to mangle a body part so bad it can't be reanimated, and not separate the parts for individual reanimation (It's frightening when you cut off a zombie's arm and then you continue the fight a bit, only to be attacked from behind by the arm you cut off).
Source: Subsystem Damage
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