truncate
Speech parts
1. truncate - Adjective
2. truncate - Verb
3. truncate - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
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Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.
truncate a word
Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains
truncate a series
a truncate leaf
truncated volcanic mountains