cut off (v.)
- abridge
- alienate
- amputate
- annihilate
- ax
- ban
- bar
- bereave
- bisect
- bleed
- block
- blockade
- bob
- break
- butcher
- carve
- catch
- chloroform
- chop
- cleave
- clip
- crop
- cull
- curtail
- cut
- debar
- delete
- depart
- deprive
- destroy
- dichotomize
- disarticulate
- disconnect
- disengage
- disinherit
- disjoin
- disjoint
- disown
- dispatch
- displace
- dispossess
- dissever
- dissociate
- disunite
- divest
- divide
- divorce
- dock
- drain
- eject
- eliminate
- embargo
- end
- enucleate
- eradicate
- estrange
- evict
- except
- excise
- exclude
- execute
- expel
- expropriate
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- finish
- fissure
- foreclose
- gash
- hack
- halve
- hew
- ignore
- immolate
- incise
- insulate
- intermit
- interrupt
- isolate
- kill
- lance
- leave
- liquidate
- lop
- lynch
- martyr
- martyrize
- milk
- mine
- mutilate
- nip
- omit
- ostracize
- pare
- part
- peel
- poison
- preclude
- prohibit
- prune
- purge
- reject
- relegate
- rend
- repudiate
- rive
- sacrifice
- saw
- scissor
- scrag
- segregate
- separate
- sequester
- sever
- shave
- shear
- slash
- slaughter
- slay
- slice
- slit
- snip
- split
- starve
- strip
- subtract
- sunder
- suspend
- taboo
- tap
- tear
- to
- truncate
- uncouple
- unyoke
- usurp
- whittle
- withdraw