to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
to cut (cloth, paper, etc.); to cut off; to sever (ties); to break off (relations); to cut off (a supply route, enemy's retreat, etc.); to block
to cut apart; to split; to divide; to cut open
to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; (lit.) to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone
cutting off the edges (printing, sewing, cooking, etc.); snippets; trimmings; cuttings
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of
cutting apart; something that has been cut apart
foods abstained from in hopes of having one's desire granted
to interpret (and use) a passage without regard to its context