bite, cut, clip, sever, dissect

live, pass time

take out canal from, to cut a canal, a rivulet branching out of a river

travel

cross a person's path, interfere, to stop someone from going or to encounter any obstacle which is considered bad luck (Superstitious people believe that it is a mischief if a black cat etc. goes out from right to left or from left to right on one's way)

doing hard work, working hard, Metaphorically: to suffer

clip the wings

to get over a road, to travel

to dismiss someone's argument logically

pass time in hardship, drag out one's days

swim through, breast the waves, turn off the water into another channel

to pass away or to beguile the time, pass one's days in trouble

bleach

cut the throat, defraud, oppress, suppress, to do violence (to), to bear hard (upon), to oppress, to wrong, to defraud

sack, remove or exclude someone from some profitable work, venture or office

snuff a candle