cut away vs truncate

cut away

truncate

adj
  • Truncated. 

  • Having an abrupt termination. 

verb
  • To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off. 

  • To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits. 

  • To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal). 

How often have the words cut away and truncate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )