The Japanese word for to cut is
切る

きる - kiru

Japanese Definition

サボる
1. v. to skip; to play hooky; to be truant
2. v. to slack off, shirk one's duties

切る
1. v. (ja-vp, 切る, 切れる)
2. v. to cut, to slice, to carve
野菜の切り方 - how to cut vegetables
3. v. cut down, fell, chop down
木を切る - to cut down a tree
4. v. prune, trim, shear
5. v. cut flat things such as cloth or paper
紙をきれいに切る - to cut paper nicely
6. v. cut a person with a sword, cut down, kill
7. v. separate from the main body, cut off, break away
8. v. perform an action as if by cutting
9. v. discontinue an action, cut off, break off, turn off, hang up
電源を切る - to cut off power → to power off
電話を切る - to hang up the phone
10. v. cut or sever connection with
11. v. cut off or divide by or as if by partition
12. v. perform an action boldly
13. v. go under, be less than (numerically)
(synonyms, ja, 下回る, tr=shitamawaru)
1時間を切る - to be under one hour
14. v. to remove; to run out
湯切り - draining of hot water
髪の水気を切る - to remove the moisture from the hair
15. suffix. finish, be through
16. suffix. perform an action thoroughly or decisively