Synonyms of cut out

cut out 1 of 2

verb

1

as in to die

to stop functioning

the engine abruptly cut out

Synonyms & Similar Words

• die
• fail
• crash
• stall
• break down
• give out
• break
• conk (out)
• act up
• sputter
• jam
• fizzle
• wheeze
• malfunction

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• start (up)

2

as in to stop

to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end

now cut that out, or I'm turning this car around!

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stop
• cease
• halt
• end
• cut off
• quit
• shut off
• lay off
• break off
• pack (up or in)
• leave off
• delay
• have done with
• desist (from)
• break up
• give over
• suspend
• drop
• discontinue
• knock off
• can
• conclude
• finish
• break
• put the kibosh on
• close (down)
• check
• complete
• hold back
• clamp down
• block
• turn back
• rein (in)
• pause
• ruin
• hinder
• stem
• impede
• deactivate
• stay
• dam
• hold
• suppress
• obstruct
• abort
• brake
• detain
• blockade
• destroy
• stamp
• arrest
• stunt
• scuttle
• abolish
• dissolve
• kill
• squash
• call
• squelch
• stanch
• demolish
• annul
• snuff
• kibosh

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• continue
• carry on
• run on
• keep up
• proceed
• advance
• progress
• follow through (with)
• drive
• stir
• propel
• actuate
• impel

3

as in to depart

to leave a place often for another

after a few minutes of their brainless conversation I was ready to cut out

Synonyms & Similar Words

• depart
• exit
• move
• get
• go
• get off
• peel off
• run along
• walk out
• pull out
• bail out
• go off
• clear out
• dig out
• push off
• pike (out or off)
• push on
• clear off
• sally (forth)
• start
• escape
• evacuate
• step (along)
• take off
• beat it
• part
• flee
• bugger off
• quit
• bug out
• bug off
• bail
• take a powder
• pack (up or off)
• shove (off)
• buzz (off)
• set out
• fly
• take a hike
• hit the road
• book
• strike out
• pull stakes
• withdraw
• begone
• retire
• get out
• run away
• retreat
• step out
• scarper
• skip
• go out
• emigrate
• vamoose
• light out
• abandon
• remove
• desert
• abscond
• vacate
• forsake
• adjourn
• scat
• scram
• decamp
• mizzle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• come
• show up
• arrive
• remain
• stay
• turn up
• settle
• dwell
• abide
• close
• approach
• reach
• hit
• lodge
• land
• near
• tarry

4

as in to replace

to take the place of

this ambitious new friend of hers seems to be cutting out people that she's known for years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• replace
• supersede
• displant
• supplant
• relieve
• substitute
• displace
• preempt
• usurp

cut out

2 of 2

adjective

as in capable

Related Words

• capable
• able
• competent
• qualified
• trained
• needed
• requisite
• required
• adequate
• justified
• appropriate
• satisfactory
• acceptable
• just
• suitable
• fitting
• proper
• meet
• pretty
• deserved
• decent
• applicable
• becoming
• correct
• tolerable
• kosher
• right
• serviceable
• fit
• happy
• pitch-perfect
• fitted
• condign
• apt
• felicitous
• balanced
• good
• befitting
• respectable
• harmonious
• decorous
• consonant
• rightful
• seemly
• companionate
• congruous

Dissimilar Words

• improper
• wrong
• inappropriate
• unhappy
• unfit
• unsuitable
• inapplicable
• incapable
• indecent
• unseemly
• incongruous
• unbecoming
• incompetent
• unfitting
• inadequate
• inapt
• unskilled
• unbeseeming
• inapposite
• unsatisfactory
• unqualified
• unacceptable
• misbecoming
• untrained
• intolerable
• inept
• infelicitous
• unapt
• unskillful
• unmeet
• inexpert
• incorrect
• malapropos
• incompatible
• indecorous
• uncongenial
• graceless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cut out

Verb

His heart had also been cut out of his chest, the affidavit continues. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Fauci’s image was cut out from a mural on the NIH campus around the same time. — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

As for Weiss, the former president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has had his work cut out for him. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 28 July 2026

The goal is to kill the incentive to spam in the first place, while also cutting out the résumé-screening stage entirely—a step Chait says is riddled with bias and adds roughly six days to the hiring process for little real benefit. — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 27 July 2026