Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
- TJ breaks into the bully's house and threatens to cut off his toes with rusty pruning shears.
Source: Film / Hesher -
Bound (1996) has Shelly's finger cut off just off screen with pruning shears.
Source: Fingore
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Pruning and Cut off. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut_off/pruning
Cut off & Pruning. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut_off/pruning>.
Pruning or Cut off. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut_off/pruning.
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