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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
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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?
All efforts by the authorities to curtail this phenomenon will fail as long as ... the accused are forced to confess to any crime, even if they did not commit it.
We will not tolerate a business facilitating illegal drug activity by selling drug paraphernalia, our efforts will curtail the ease of obtaining items needed to use crack cocaine.
I don’t think the Fed has any incentives to curtail its stimulus at this point, even though some market players may try to read between the lines for any signs of tapering in stimulus, i think the dollar is staying in a downtrend even though it is marking time for now.
We applaud President Trump's tweets supporting U.S. companies being able to sell products to China and opposing proposed regulations that would unduly curtail that ability, as we have discussed with the administration, sales of non-sensitive, commercial products to China drive semiconductor research and innovation, which is critical to America's economic strength and national security.
They are just a nuisance, we are not going to get rid of them completely. Trapping will never get rid of all of them, but at least we can try to curtail them.
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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