# cut out

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
2. To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
3. To remove; to omit.
4. To oust; to replace.
5. To separate (an animal) from the herd.
6. To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
7. To leave suddenly.
8. To arrange or prepare.
9. To intercept.
10. To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
11. To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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