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Synonyms for curtail
kərˈteɪlcur·tail
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curtailverb
curtailverb
To cut short the tail of an animal
Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
curtailverb
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
curtailverb
To limit or restrict, keep in check.
Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
restrict, curtail, curb, cut backverb
place restrictions on
"curtail drinking in school"
Synonyms:
suppress, bring down, qualify, conquer, moderate, throttle, trim down, flash back, prune, inhibit, cut, trammel, trim back, lop, trim, cut down, reduce, control, subdue, curb, stamp down, hold, cut short, confine, restrain, restrict, clip, hold in, contain, bound, limit, cut back, snip, crop, dress, checkclip, curtail, cut shortverb
terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
"My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"
Synonyms:
restrict, cut back, break short, jog, prune, crop, clip, trim, dress, trot, snip off, break off, truncate, lop, cut short, curb, snip, nip off
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#333 | control | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1324 | cut | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2110 | limit | |
#2549 | clip | |
#2700 | contain | |
#2868 | dress | |
#3403 | bound | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5998 | trim | |
#6428 | qualify | |
#8897 | dock | |
#9424 | restrict | |
#12551 | curb | |
#16211 | conquer | |
#16650 | summarize | |
#16683 | suppress | |
#16912 | throttle | |
#17901 | inhibit | |
#23816 | snip | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#26264 | jog | |
#30094 | restrain | |
#31755 | trot | |
#32728 | prune | |
#36343 | confine | |
#41636 | lop | |
#43430 | curtail | |
#43622 | truncate | |
#54755 | subdue | |
#60459 | condense | |
#82163 | abbreviate | |
#101576 | abridge | |
#111104 | trammel | |
#142401 | epitomize | |
#173180 | amputate | |
#225728 | retrench |
How to use curtail in a sentence?
Argus Research analyst Jim Kelleher:
I expect them to sharply curtail their share repurchases until the company is in better shape financially.
The threat is still the gillnet, but Leigh Henry’re now dealing with a whole new industry, instead of legal shrimp fishers, we’re now dealing with transnational organized crime and people working on the black market. In the last few years, the Mexican government has stepped up its efforts to curtail poaching in the Gulf of California – the body of water that separates the Baja Peninsula from the rest of Mexico – adding in June two small boats, a number of vehicles and 135 sailors to an enforcement force deployed in 2015 under the Upper Gulf of California Integrated Protection Program. The new support joined the 13 ships, five vehicles, a helicopter-carrying ship and a plane already deployed to combat illegal fishing in the region. The U.S., which is seen as the main transshipment country for the totoaba’s bladders, has also joined in the fight against traffickers. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 1,328 pounds of totoaba fish bladders that were in route to Hong Kong. While conservationists agree that the main battle to save the totoaba and vaquita is in Mexican water, they acknowledge that the demand for the bladders in China is the reason for the illegal trade and argued that officials in Beijing and Hong Kong need to crack down on the underground fish trade. ' WORLD'S SADDEST POLAR BEAR' MOVED AFTER OUTPOURING OF OUTRAGE TOWARDS CHINESE MALL The problem, experts argue, is that wildlife trafficking is so pervasive in the world’s most populous nation that authorities are stretched thin and forced to give priority to larger cases.
Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur:
We recognise the critical importance of infrastructure in driving economic growth but we are confronted with the constraints on public resources that require that we curtail public spending therefore it is necessary to turn to the private sector.
These new measures include provisions that make it harder for people to register to vote, curtail mail-in voting and early voting, and make it easier for state officials to simply delete your voter registration.
All efforts by the authorities to curtail this phenomenon will fail as long as ... the accused are forced to confess to any crime, even if they did not commit it.
Translations for curtail
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- بترArabic
- съкращавам, скъсявам, ограничавам, подрязвамBulgarian
- zkrátit, omezitCzech
- forkorte, begrænseDanish
- verkürzen, stutzen, beschränken, beschneiden, drosseln, kürzenGerman
- truncar, limitarSpanish
- piiramaEstonian
- restreindre, abréger, écourterFrench
- giorraichScottish Gaelic
- קיצר, צִמְצֵםHebrew
- घटानाHindi
- accorciareItalian
- ಮೊಟಕುಗೊಳಿಸಿKannada
- auporo, totopeMāori
- knotten, beknotten, beperken, kortwieken, bekorten, verkorten, kort houden, inkortenDutch
- tosarPortuguese
- сокращать, органичивать, урезатьRussian
- skratiti, stegnuti, ograničiti, smanjitiSerbo-Croatian
- குறைத்தல்Tamil
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