cut off in WordNet English dictionary

1. remove surgically
   "amputate limbs"
   amputate  cut off 
   
2. break a small piece off from
   "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
   chip  knap  cut off  break off 
   
3. make a break in
   "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
   interrupt  disrupt  break up  cut off 
   
4. remove by or as if by cutting
   "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
   cut off  chop off  lop off 
   
5. cease, stop
   "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
   cut  cut off 
   
6. cut off and stop
   "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
   cut off  cut out 
   

1. detached by cutting
   "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"
   severed  cut off