n. terminates the flow in a pipe

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

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

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

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

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

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

v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"

v. bring disorder to

v. destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

v. damage as if by shaking or jarring; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!"

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

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

v. become separated, disconnected or disjoint

v. keep engaged; "engaged the gears"

v. be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"

v. force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

v. make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

v. make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

v. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

v. separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"

v. separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

v. lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants"

v. to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"

v. shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"

v. cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"

v. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"

v. cut with a hacking tool

v. find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"