Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
- Friend decides to give Bond a much different and crueler demise; have him skinned alive and use the pieces cut off as skingrafts for his scarred body.
Source: Literature / By Royal Command - In Wicked's opening scene, the song accompanying Elphaba's birth gets cut off by the midwife screaming at the sight of the green-skinned infant.
Source: Musicalis Interruptus - While the game gives vague, contradictory accounts of his death, Word of God confirms that he was betrayed by the Tribunal (who at the time, were his wife, his teacher, and his friend/advisor)—who cut off his feet, skinned his face, and impaled him through the heart with a spear.
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