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finish
To bring to a required or desired state:
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  1. To bring to a required or desired state:
  2. (Sports) To score a goal as the last maneuver in a play:
  3. To consume all of; use up:
halt
To walk lamely or move in an irregular fashion.
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  1. To walk lamely or move in an irregular fashion.
  2. To bring to a stop.
  3. (Intransitive) To stop marching.
quit
To stop, discontinue, or resign from
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  1. To stop, discontinue, or resign from
  2. To abandon an activity out of frustration or despair; give up:
  3. To cease or discontinue:
intercept
(Obsolete) To cut off from access or communication.
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  1. (Obsolete) To cut off from access or communication.
  2. To stop, deflect, or interrupt the progress or intended course of:
  3. To seize or stop on the way, before arrival at the intended place; stop or interrupt the course of; cut off
halt
(Intransitive) To stop marching.
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  1. (Intransitive) To stop marching.
  2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.
  3. To bring to a stop.
abridge
(Rare) To deprive (a person) of rights, privileges, etc.
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  1. (Rare) To deprive (a person) of rights, privileges, etc.
  2. To shorten (a piece of writing) while preserving its substance; condense
  3. To condense or shorten the whole of something, such as a book, and not merely a portion of it.
abbreviate
To make shorter:
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  1. To make shorter:
  2. To shorten (a word or phrase) by leaving out letters or, sometimes, by substituting letters, numerals, symbols, etc.
  3. To reduce (a word or phrase) to a shorter form intended to represent the full form.
shorten
To make short or shorter; reduce in length, amount, or extent
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  1. To make short or shorter; reduce in length, amount, or extent
  2. (Nautical) To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
  3. To become short or shorter.
Find another word for cut-short. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for cut-short, like: finish, halt, quit, end abruptly, intercept, check, halt, abridge, abbreviate, shorten and end.

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  • Monk cut short these deliberations and forced on the Restoration without condition.

  • 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.

  • Cairolis premiership was, however, destined to be cut short by an atte~npt made upon the kings life in November 1878, during a royal visit to Naples, by a miscreant named Passanante.

  • 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.

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