curtailing
Meaning of curtailing
verb
- To cut short the tail of an animal
Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
- To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
- To limit or restrict, keep in check.
noun
A cutting short; truncation.
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Hyphenation of curtailing
cur-tail-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- curtailing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
curtailing synonyms
Meaning :
crop, dock, behedge, control, limit, restrain, abbreviate, shorten
Anagrams of curtailing
Words that rhyme with curtailing
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