curtailed
Meaning of curtailed
- reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.
civil liberties were further curtailed
late 15th century: from obsolete curtal ‘horse with a docked tail’, from French courtault, from court ‘short’, from Latin curtus . The change in the ending was due to association with tail1 and perhaps also with French tailler ‘to cut’.
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Hyphenation of curtailed
cur-tailed
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- curtailed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
curtailed synonyms
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object:
Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:
Meaning make or become less; diminish:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning reduce (something) in extent or quantity:
Meaning reduce the size, amount, number, or cost of:
Meaning (of a ship) come into a dock and tie up at a wharf:
Meaning cut off (a branch, limb, or twig) from the main body of a tree:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning make or become shorter:
Meaning shorten the duration or extent of:
Meaning put a limit on; keep under control:
Meaning set or serve as a limit to:
Meaning restrain or keep in check:
Meaning cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife:
curtailed antonyms
Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:
Meaning make or become longer:
Anagrams of curtailed
Words that rhyme with curtailed
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