Curtail

ahd-5
  • transitive verb. To cut short or reduce: synonym: shorten.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A corruption of curtal. Compare curtail, v.
  • To cut short; cut off the end or a part of; dock; diminish in extent or quantity: as, to curtail words.
  • To deprive by excision or removal; abate by deprivation or negation: as, to curtail one of part of his allowance, or of his proper title.
  • noun. In architecture, a member shaped like a volute or scroll, especially in stair-building, as in the lower termination of a hand-rail or the projection of the lowest step of a flight. See curtail-step.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
  • transitive verb. To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cut short the tail of an animal
  • verb. To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
  • verb. To limit or restrict, keep in check.
  • noun. A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
  • verb. place restrictions on
    • Word Usage
    "Booming M&A activity has helped to drive Australia's stock market to a record, but these changes may in the short term curtail that activity."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shorten  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bayle  Braille  Dail  Dale  Gael  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abate  abate  abbreviate  abrade  abridge  
    verb-form
    curtailed  curtailing  curtails  
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