curtail
21curtail — [16] The now defunct English noun curtal meant ‘horse with a docked tail’. It was borrowed in the 16th century from French courtault, a derivative of the adjective court ‘short’. Like English curt [17] this came from Latin curtus ‘cut off,… …
22Curtail dog — Cur tail dog (d[o^]g ; 115). A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog… …
23curtail-step — curˈtail step noun A round ended step at the bottom of a flight • • • Main Entry: ↑curtail …
24curtail — verb /kɜːˈteɪl,kɚˈteɪl/ a) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate. Curtailing horses procured long horse hair. b) To limit or restrict, keep in check. When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech …
25curtail — Synonyms and related words: abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abstract, arrest, bate, bereave, bleed, bob, boil down, bridle, capsulize, check, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrain,… …
26curtail — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. shorten, clip, cut, abbreviate; abate, diminish, reduce, lessen, abridge; deprive. See shortness, decrease, discontinuance. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. shorten, diminish, reduce, abridge; see decrease… …
27curtail — cur·tail || kÉœË teɪl v. decrease, reduce, shorten, cut short …
28curtail — [kə: teɪl] verb place a restriction on. Derivatives curtailment noun Origin C15: from obs. curtal horse with a docked tail , from Fr. courtault, from court short , from L. curtus; the change in the ending was due to assoc. with tail1 …
29curtail — v. a. 1. Shorten, abridge, retrench, lop, cut short. 2. Diminish, lessen, decrease …
30curtail — v reduce, decrease, retrench, diminish, cut, cut short, cut down, cut back, cut off, subtract, subduct, lessen, shorten, contract, abridge, abbreviate, narrow, shrink, compress, Obs. breviate, dock, crop, clip, shear, trim, prune, pare down,… …
