Curtail

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cut short or reduce. See Synonyms at shorten.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cut short the tail of an animal
  • v. To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
  • v. To limit or restrict, keep in check.
  • n. A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
  • n. The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
  • v. place restrictions on
  • Verb Form
    curtailed    curtailing    curtails   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shorten   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shorten    abridge    diminish    reduce    abate    clip    deprive    limit    control    restrain   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell