curtail

Meaning of curtail

verb
  1. reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.
    civil liberties were further curtailed

late 15th century: from obsolete curtal ‘horse with a docked tail’, from French courtault, from court ‘short’, from Latin curtus . The change in the ending was due to association with tail1 and perhaps also with French tailler ‘to cut’.

Information about curtail

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of curtail is: curtails.
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Hyphenation of curtail

cur-tail

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • curtail is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

curtail synonyms

Meaning restrict:

restrict, curb

Meaning clip:

clip

Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:

reduce

Meaning make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object:

cut

Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:

decrease

Meaning make or become less; diminish:

lessen

Meaning make or become less:

diminish

Meaning reduce (something) in extent or quantity:

retrench

Meaning reduce the size, amount, number, or cost of:

trim

Meaning (of a ship) come into a dock and tie up at a wharf:

dock

Meaning cut off (a branch, limb, or twig) from the main body of a tree:

lop

Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:

shrink

Meaning make or become shorter:

shorten

Meaning shorten the duration or extent of:

truncate

Meaning set or serve as a limit to:

limit

Meaning cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife:

chop

curtail antonyms

Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:

increase

Meaning make or become longer:

lengthen

Translation of curtail

Anagrams of curtail

trucial, urtical

Words that rhyme with curtail

tail, bobtail, lobtail, tubtail, bandtail, broadtail, goldtail, hardtail, lizardtail, redtail, roundtail, shieldtail, swordtail, Fringetail, betail, bonetail, bristletail, daggletail, detail, dovetail, drabbletail, draggletail, firetail, freetail, horsetail, lyretail, mousetail, nonretail, piketail, predetail, quaketail, retail, scaletail, shadetail, shavetail, spiketail, spindletail, spinetail, squaretail, swingletail, tripletail, trundletail, whitetail, wiretail, leeftail, stifftail, Wagtail, bangtail, dogtail, longtail

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