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CUT SHORT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
Example:
Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut short" is one way to...):
shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make shorter as if by cutting off
Example:
Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains
Synonyms:
cut short; truncate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut short" is one way to...):
shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration)
"Cut short" entails doing...:
chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Interrupt before its natural or planned end
Example:
We had to cut short our vacation
Synonyms:
break off; break short; cut short
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut short" is one way to...):
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut short"):
hang up (interrupt a telephone conversation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cause to end earlier than intended
Example:
The spontaneous applause cut the singer short
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut short" is one way to...):
disrupt; interrupt (interfere in someone else's activity)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Context examples:
He was cut short by the eager attacks of the little boys, clinging to him like an old friend, and declaring he should not go; and being too much engrossed by proposals of carrying them away in his coat pockets, &c., to have another moment for finishing or recollecting what he had begun, Anne was left to persuade herself, as well as she could, that the same brother must still be in question.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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