curtailing

Speech parts

1. curtailing - Noun

2. curtailing - Verb

Meaning

of Curtail

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reduce decline reduction decrease cutting controlling limiting restrict contraction lowering trim clip contracting diminishing shrinking
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Antonyms

increasing grow continuing expand alter encouraging
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Anagrams

granulitic

Examples

Democracies that are under threat of destruction face the impossible dilemma of either yielding to that threat by insisting on preserving the democratic niceties, or violating their own principles by curtailing democratic rights. Richard J. Evans

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life. Bob Geldof

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production. Jeff Goodell

Bayelsa State Government has warned those compromising its border control measures towards curtailing the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 in the state to turn a new leaf or face the wrath of the law. Source: Internet

By 1801, the New York Legislature found it necessary to pass regulations curtailing obstructions to the natural migrations of Atlantic salmon from Lake Erie into their spawning channels. Source: Internet

A prerequisite for achieving many of these worthwhile objectives is curtailing endemic corruption, which stymies development and taints Nigeria's business environment. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

curtail dog curtailable curtailer curtailment curtailment of expenses curtailment of spending