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verb
- 1. reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on: "civil liberties were further curtailed"
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to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something: to curtail your holiday / spending. With all the snow, our daily walks have been severely curtailed. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to cancel something. cancel Sorry, I have to cancel our plans tonight.
to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something: to curtail your holiday / spending. severely curtailed With all the snow, our daily walks have been severely curtailed. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to cancel something. cancel Sorry, I have to cancel our plans tonight.
: to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part. curtail the power of the executive branch. curtail inflation. Some school activities are being curtailed due to a lack of funds. curtailer. (ˌ)kər-ˈtā-lər. noun. Synonyms. abbreviate. abridge. cut back. dock. elide. shorten. syncopate. truncate. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
Define curtailed. curtailed synonyms, curtailed pronunciation, curtailed translation, English dictionary definition of curtailed. tr.v. cur·tailed , cur·tail·ing , cur·tails To cut short or reduce: We curtailed our conversation when other people entered the room.
to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something: to curtail your vacation / spending. severely curtailed With all the snow, our daily walks have been severely curtailed. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to cancel something.
noun. , Architecture. a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing. Also called curtail step. a starting step having a scroll termination to one or both ends of the tread. curtail. / kɜːˈteɪl / verb. tr to cut short; abridge. Discover More. Derived Forms. curˈtailment, noun. curˈtailer, noun. Discover More. Other Words From.
curtail. (kɜːʳteɪl ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense curtails , present participle curtailing , past tense, past participle curtailed. verb. If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it. [formal] NATO plans to curtail the number of troops being sent to the region. [VERB noun]
To curtail something is to slow it down, put restrictions on it, or stop it entirely. If I give up cake, I am curtailing my cake-eating. Curtail is an official-sounding word for stopping or slowing things down. The police try to curtail crime — they want there to be less crime in the world.
Definition of curtail verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Noun. Filter. verb. curtailed, curtailing, curtails. To cut short; reduce; abridge. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. (figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check. Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed. Wiktionary. Synonyms: cut-short. clip. cut back. curb. restrict. water-down. stop. slash. retrench. lop. lessen. cut
