'cut short' definitions:
Definition of 'cut short'
(from WordNet)
verb
Interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation" [syn: cut short, break short, break off]
verb
Cause to end earlier than intended; "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"
verb
Make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" [syn: truncate, cut short]
verb
Synonyms of 'cut short'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviate,
- abbreviated,
- abridge,
- abridged,
- abstract,
- abstracted,
- arrest,
- block,
- bob,
- bobbed,
- boil down,
- brake,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- butchered,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- capsulized,
- castrated,
- check,
- checkmate,
- choke,
- choke off,
- clip,
- clipped,
- compress,
- compressed,
- condense,
- condensed,
- contract,
- crop,
- cropped,
- curtail,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- dam,
- deadlock,
- digested,
- dispose of,
- do away with,
- dock,
- docked,
- draw rein,
- dumbfound,
- elide,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- end,
- epitomize,
- finish,
- finish off,
- foreshorten,
- freeze,
- gag,
- garbled,
- get rid of,
- halt,
- hashed,
- hush,
- hush-hush,
- kill,
- lopped,
- make away with,
- mangled,
- mow,
- mowed,
- mown,
- muffle,
- mutilated,
- muzzle,
- nip,
- nipped,
- poll,
- pollard,
- polled,
- prune,
- pruned,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- put to silence,
- quiet,
- quieten,
- reap,
- reaped,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- retrench,
- shave,
- shaved,
- shear,
- sheared,
- short-cut,
- shorten,
- shortened,
- shush,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- slaughter,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- soft-pedal,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stay,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stifle,
- still,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- strike dumb,
- stunt,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- take off,
- telescope,
- throttle,
- to,
- trim,
- trimmed,
- truncate,
- truncated