curtailing

Meaning of curtailing

verb
  1. To cut short the tail of an animal
    Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
  2. To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
    When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
  3. 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

granulitic

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