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Synonyms for cut short
cut short
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Princeton's WordNet
cut short, break short, break offverb
interrupt before its natural or planned end
"We had to cut short our vacation"
Synonyms:
stop, break away, clip, break short, come off, break off, chip, truncate, discontinue, chip off, snap off, curtail, break, cut off, knapcut shortverb
cause to end earlier than intended
"The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"
Synonyms:
truncate, clip, break off, curtail, break shorttruncate, cut shortverb
make shorter as if by cutting off
"truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
Synonyms:
truncate, clip, break off, curtail, break shortclip, 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, curtail, trim, dress, trot, snip off, break off, truncate, lop, curb, snip, nip off
Dictionary of English Synonymes
cut short
Synonyms:
bring to a sudden close, end abruptlycut short
Synonyms:
check suddenly, hinder from proceedingcut short
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1038 | stop | |
#1618 | break | |
#2549 | clip | |
#2868 | dress | |
#3712 | chip | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5998 | trim | |
#9424 | restrict | |
#12551 | curb | |
#22808 | discontinue | |
#23816 | snip | |
#26264 | jog | |
#31755 | trot | |
#32728 | prune | |
#41636 | lop | |
#43430 | curtail | |
#43622 | truncate | |
#108159 | knap |
How to use cut short in a sentence?
A good Samaritan, somebody that goes out of her way to help somebody, her life was cut short.
The number of lives cut short by air pollution is already terrible and the potential rise in the next few decades is terrifying, if this is not motivation enough to act, this report shows there will also be a heavy economic cost to not taking action.
Each one of those is a story of grief, of profound loss, and great sadness, of lives cut short, and of families being changed forever.
Her life was cut short.
I'm fine if my time on this earth is cut short.
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