cut off

make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"

remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"

cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"

break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

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"