Cut-short Synonyms and Antonyms

To terminate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. finish
  2. halt
  3. quit
  4. end abruptly
To interrupt
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. check
  2. break short
  3. clip
  4. curtail
  5. intercept
  6. abbreviate
  7. checkmate
  8. halt
  9. freeze
  10. stop cold
  11. stop-dead
  12. stop-short
  13. break off
Antonyms:
  1. lengthen
  2. continue
  3. prolong
To truncate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. abridge
  2. abbreviate
  3. truncate
  4. shorten

Words Related to Cut-short

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Cut-short Sentence Examples

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

  • One negotiation of supreme importance was cut short for this reason.

  • 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.

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