Cut-short Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Cut-short

finish
To finish is defined as to complete, use up or give the final touches to.
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end abruptly
To terminate
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break off
To remove a piece from a whole by breaking or snapping
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quit
To quit is to stop doing something, or to formally leave a job.
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intercept
To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
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check
Check means to test, examine, compare or inspect something to see if it is as it should be.
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halt
To come or bring to a halt; stop, esp. temporarily
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abridge
Cut short; truncate. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
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abbreviate
To reduce (a word or phrase) to a shorter form intended to represent the full form.
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break short
To interrupt
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checkmate
To move a piece placing (an opponent's king) under threat of being taken on the next move with no way of escape or defense possible.
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clip
(Informal) A quick sharp blow:
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curtail
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
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stop cold
To interrupt
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stop-dead
(Intransitive, idiomatic) To stop suddenly.
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stop-short
Usually with of, to voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point.
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truncate
(Mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (leading) digits; to chop.
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shorten
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
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freeze
To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action:
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Antonyms for Cut-short

prolong
To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.
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lengthen
To make longer, to extend the length of.
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continue
To carry on; persist in:
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Words Related to Cut-short

decrease
(Intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
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interrupt
To cause an activity to stop by saying or doing something.
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end
To come to an end; terminate
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stop
(Intransitive) To come to an end.
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hinder
To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
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Cut-short Sentence Examples

  • But his hopes of further conquest were cut short by his death.

  • Pisa and Perugia were threatened with extinction, and Florence dreaded the advance of the Visconti arms, when the plague suddenly cut short his career of treachery and conquest in the year 1402.

  • A visit to southern Italy, where many of the princes did homage to the emperor, was cut short by the death of the pope, to whose chair Otto then appointed his former tutor Gerbert, who took the name of Sylvester II.

  • Grindal indeed attempted a reform of the ecclesiastical courts, but his metropolitical activity was cut short by a conflict with the arbitrary temper of the queen.

  • His attempts to crush all such disturbers of the peace were cut short by his death in his second year of office.

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