cut short

Verb

Meaning

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: WordNet

Synonyms

clip curtail truncate break off break short pollard scotch elliptic end cut prune reduce stop block stay
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Antonyms

continue table extended maintain draw expand
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Hypernyms

break interrupt disrupt shorten

Hyponyms

hang up

Examples

Without 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

Close letter words and terms

cut scene cut school cut sheet cut shorter cut sig cut signature