cut short
v 1: interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut
short our vacation" [syn: break short, break off]
2: cause to end earlier than intended; "The spontaneous
applause cut the singer short"
3: make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word";
"Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" [syn:
truncate]
4: terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or
its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal
freedom is curtailed in many countries" [syn: clip, curtail]
WordNet (r) 2.0
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "cut short":
abbreviate, abbreviated, abridge, abridged, abstract, abstracted,
arrest, block, bob, bobbed, boil down, brake, bring to,
bring up short, butchered, capsule, capsulize, capsulized,
castrated, check, checkmate, choke, choke off, clip, clipped,
compress, compressed, condense, condensed, contract, crop, cropped,
curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off,
cut off short, dam, deadlock, digested, dispose of, do away with,
dock, docked, draw rein, dumbfound, elide, elided, elliptic, end,
epitomize, finish, finish off, foreshorten, freeze, gag, garbled,
get rid of, halt, hashed, hush, hush-hush, kill, lopped,
make away with, mangled, mow, mowed, mown, muffle, mutilated,
muzzle, nip, nipped, poll, pollard, polled, prune, pruned, pull up,
put paid to, put to silence, quiet, quieten, reap, reaped, recap,
recapitulate, reduce, retrench, shave, shaved, shear, sheared,
short-cut, shorten, shortened, shush, shut down on, silence,
slaughter, snub, snubbed, soft-pedal, squash, squelch, stalemate,
stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stifle, still, stop, stop cold,
stop dead, stop short, strike dumb, stunt, sum up, summarize,
synopsize, take in, take off, telescope, throttle, to, trim,
trimmed, truncate, truncated
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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