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Synonyms for curtail
kərˈteɪlcur·tail
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curtailverb
curtailverb
To cut short the tail of an animal
Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
curtailverb
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
curtailverb
To limit or restrict, keep in check.
Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
restrict, curtail, curb, cut backverb
place restrictions on
"curtail drinking in school"
Synonyms:
suppress, bring down, qualify, conquer, moderate, throttle, trim down, flash back, prune, inhibit, cut, trammel, trim back, lop, trim, cut down, reduce, control, subdue, curb, stamp down, hold, cut short, confine, restrain, restrict, clip, hold in, contain, bound, limit, cut back, snip, crop, dress, checkclip, curtail, cut shortverb
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"
Synonyms:
restrict, cut back, break short, jog, prune, crop, clip, trim, dress, trot, snip off, break off, truncate, lop, cut short, curb, snip, nip off
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#333 | control | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1324 | cut | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2110 | limit | |
#2549 | clip | |
#2700 | contain | |
#2868 | dress | |
#3403 | bound | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5998 | trim | |
#6428 | qualify | |
#8897 | dock | |
#9424 | restrict | |
#12551 | curb | |
#16211 | conquer | |
#16650 | summarize | |
#16683 | suppress | |
#16912 | throttle | |
#17901 | inhibit | |
#23816 | snip | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#26264 | jog | |
#30094 | restrain | |
#31755 | trot | |
#32728 | prune | |
#36343 | confine | |
#41636 | lop | |
#43430 | curtail | |
#43622 | truncate | |
#54755 | subdue | |
#60459 | condense | |
#82163 | abbreviate | |
#101576 | abridge | |
#111104 | trammel | |
#142401 | epitomize | |
#173180 | amputate | |
#225728 | retrench |
How to use curtail in a sentence?
While that will certainly curtail demand, I wouldn't expect to see heavy easing in terms of prices, just because there's very little excess capacity in the marketplace to absorb any additional demand, people cry wolf on oil prices.
I'm at a loss to see how a call for the administration to be more transparent about decisions involving the special counsel — including any decision to fire the special counsel or curtail his investigation — would undermine the Mueller investigation.
Taxes on cars and parking charges should be raised to curtail usage, and public transport should be expanded, emissions are not just related to age.
In general, these water shortages are stressing systems. They're stressing communities, in particular, the Colorado River, we are seeing the Bureau of Reclamation begin their calls for for additional actions that will provide or curtail some water allocations.
There is about a one in three chance that if we take no action to mitigate climate or to do anything to curtail any of the factors that go into this water stress metric, there is a one in three chance that you will reach this unsustainable situation by the middle of the century.
Translations for curtail
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- بترArabic
- съкращавам, скъсявам, ограничавам, подрязвамBulgarian
- zkrátit, omezitCzech
- forkorte, begrænseDanish
- verkürzen, stutzen, beschränken, beschneiden, drosseln, kürzenGerman
- truncar, limitarSpanish
- piiramaEstonian
- restreindre, abréger, écourterFrench
- giorraichScottish Gaelic
- קיצר, צִמְצֵםHebrew
- घटानाHindi
- accorciareItalian
- ಮೊಟಕುಗೊಳಿಸಿKannada
- auporo, totopeMāori
- knotten, beknotten, beperken, kortwieken, bekorten, verkorten, kort houden, inkortenDutch
- tosarPortuguese
- сокращать, органичивать, урезатьRussian
- skratiti, stegnuti, ograničiti, smanjitiSerbo-Croatian
- குறைத்தல்Tamil
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