verb
- Interrupt before its natural or planned end.
- usage: "We had to cut short our vacation"
- synonyms: break short, break off
- Cause to end earlier than intended.
- usage: "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"
- Make shorter as if by cutting off.
- usage: "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
- synonyms: truncate
- Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent.
- usage: "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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