curtail
IPA: kɝtˈeɪɫ
noun
- (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
- (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
- (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
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Examples of "curtail" in Sentences
- They curtailed the time limit.
- The men curtailed the limitation.
- The point is curtailing the importance of the plot.
- Tho 'curtail'd their ranks, 'tis their character due,
- To curtail or prohibit the activities of number three.
- The Seneca tried to curtail the encroachment of white settlers.
- Now if we curtail the list, we are curtailing these potentialities.
- The British continued to work with the Fante to curtail the Ashanti.
- This effectively curtailed the involvement of Aborigines in the game.
- However, the crowd became unruly causing the concert to be curtailed.
- Asquith then proposed that the powers of the Lords be severely curtailed.
- King called for blacks to stop drinking and gambling and to curtail their desires for luxuries.
- To more effectively curtail the real's rise, Brazil's government must exhibit much more fiscal discipline, economists say.
- The DGS strongly suggested that I "curtail" my "public activities" because we live in a small community and it might affect my reputation.
- Time Warner Cable said it will "curtail" the use of the word "free" in advertising its HD service and stopped running ads claiming that AT
- Booming M&A activity has helped to drive Australia's stock market to a record, but these changes may in the short term curtail that activity.
- I mean I am a seeker, so I worked really hard to kind of curtail those behaviors but I could not be in charge or in control of my behavior until I went on medicine.
- Freedom is not absolute, of course, but the worst atrocities in history have been carried out when authorities decided to "curtail" activities "in the interest of the common good."
- "curtail" his Majesty's Wig "of its fair proportion;" yet I have sometimes been apt to think it rather improper, to make the Wig, as is usually done, of larger dimensions than the tree in which it and his
- A poor African, behind the pulpit, who perhaps had seen pictures of the devil with a long tail and hoofs, misapprehended the meaning of the word curtail, and responded, "Amen! may it be cut right, smack, smooth, short off."
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