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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > curtail (31)
wanea889

To lessen, diminish, abridge (a privilege, right, etc.). Obsolete.

dockc1380

transferred and figurative. To cut short or abridge by taking away a part; to lessen, curtail, subject to limitation in some respect; to deprive…

bridgec1384

transitive. To abridge, shorten; to lessen; to curtail. Also intransitive.

abridgea1393

transitive. To curtail, lessen, or diminish (a right, privilege, etc.); to reduce the extent or scope of (authority, power, etc.).

limita1398

transitive. To confine within limits, to set bounds to (rarely in concrete sense); to bound, restrict. Const. to. †Also: to prohibit (a person) from

syncopec1412

transitive. To cut short, cut down, reduce.

defalk1475

transitive. To diminish by cutting off a part, to reduce by deductions. Obsolete.

shortena1535

transitive. To make shorter, to diminish the length of, to abridge, curtail. With reference to duration.

to cut short?1542

to cut short: (transitive) to shorten by cutting off a part or parts; to abridge, curtail. literal and figurative. (Sometimes to cut shorter.)

royn1573

transitive. To cut short, curtail. Obsolete.

retrench1587

transitive. To reduce the extent, amount, or number of; to diminish, lessen, cut down. Also with to.

curtail1589

To shorten in duration or extent; to cut down; to abbreviate, abridge, diminish, or reduce, in extent or amount.

retranch1589

transitive. = retrench, v.1 (in various senses).

lop1594

transferred and figurative; esp. To cut off (a person's limbs or head). Also in general sense, to cut off, reduce by cutting. Also with adverbs as…

scantle1596

To make scant or small; to diminish, cut down, curtail; to limit, restrict.

scant1599

To make scant or small; to reduce in size, cut down; to diminish the amount of. ? Obsolete.

scantelize1611

transitive. To shorten, curtail.

curtalize1622

= curtail, v.

defalce1651

= defalk, v.

detrench1655

figurative. To cut away, cut down, retrench, curtail.

barb1657

figurative. To clip, cut back. Obsolete.

defalcatea1690

To take or deduct a part from; to curtail, reduce. Obsolete.

razee1815

transitive. To cut down; to reduce. Obsolete.

detruncate1846

transitive. To shorten by lopping off a portion (literal and figurative); to cut short, ‘cut down’.

to cut down1857

To reduce, abridge, retrench, curtail, esp. a speech, expenses, wages. Also intransitive, frequently with on.

shave1898

To cut down in amount, to reduce. Originally and chiefly U.S.

Subcategories:

— of something superfluous (3)
— resources (1)
— excessively (1)
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