Verb
interrupt before its natural or planned end
terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
make shorter as if by cutting off
cause to end earlier than intended
Source: WordNetWithout expanding on the greater or lesser accuracy of a name which nobody, I should hope, can really be expected to understand, I will limit myself to a few words of elucidation in order to cut short the misunderstandings. Gustave Courbet
He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. Ben Jonson
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short. Gary Busey
I am glad that in my life I have never cut short my emotions. The most awful thing of all is to be numb. Elizabeth Taylor
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell. Rabia Basri