1. The act of cutting something off
   - abscission 
2. The act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
   - cut, cutting

Type of: remotion, removal, shortening

• deadly sin
• deadness
• deadpan
• deadwood
• DEAE cellulose
• deaerate
• deaf
• deaf as a post
• deaf person
• kimono
• kin
• kin group
• kina
• kinaesthesia
• kinaesthesis
• kinaesthetic
• kinaesthetically
• kinanesthesia
• kinase
• kination
• Kinchinjunga
• kind
• kind of
• kinda
• kindergarten