Maybe she was trying to cut free on several levels.

And he's compromised himself so much that I just don't see how he can possibly cut free.

The first man cut free, of course, had all the advantages.

The road, which is popular with tourists, was closed while the men were cut free.

If the man was cut free before he'd been brought low enough to beg for mercy, he would have won.

They made no sense, except his heart said to cut free.

She wasn't alive inside, not to me, so I was cut free.

He turned in time to see the flailing man cut free.

I also know they've never been cut free to do what they know-not once.

She felt eviscerated, as though he had become part of her and was being cut free.