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curtailed

[ker-teyl]

verb (used with object)

to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English curtailen to restrict (said of royal succession or inheritance), probably a conflation of Middle French courtau(l)d (see curtal) and Middle English taillen to cut (see taille, tailor)

Related forms

cur·tailed·ly, adverb

cur·tail·er, noun

cur·tail·ment, noun

non·cur·tail·ing, adjective

non·cur·tail·ment, noun

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un·cur·tailed, adjective

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Synonyms
lessen, dock. See shorten.

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Example Sentences

State support for cancer research could be curtailed.

It curtailed the president's extensive powers in favour of parliament.

In world capitals, leaders fortified their security and curtailed public appearances.

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State support for cancer research could be curtailed.

It curtailed the president's extensive powers in favour of parliament.

In world capitals, leaders fortified their security and curtailed public appearances.

Yes, i have for years contended the human population needs to curtailed and managed on this planet.

Wi-Fi by complaining that unregulated wireless technologies risked interfering with licensed spectrum and should be curtailed.

Why curtailed meat consumption should adversely affect iron levels in human blood is a bit mystifying.

The new procedures have curtailed legal challenges, which often dragged cases out for years.

Water travel is curtailed by freezeup in late fall and ice break-up in early spring.

Which could mean an end to curtailed conversations on a phone with a dying battery.

Corruption needs to be curtailed at all cost, and offenders must be dealt with according to the law.

Most of us do not know anyone whose rights have been seriously curtailed.

Private insurers curtailed their operations or pulled out.

Lewis gave a speech, but they had no interpreter and it had to be curtailed.

Moreover, the development of new hybrid species could be curtailed.

Bachman was injured halfway through the making of the ballet, and her fairy-tale leap into the spotlight was abruptly curtailed.

In particular, commercial-property developments will be curtailed and small businesses will find it harder to get loans.

Unless population growth is dramatically curtailed food will become the privilege of the rich.

The curtailed hours were originally supposed to be in effect through today.

As a result they've curtailed their already low level of lending and it is this that is responsible for the current slowdown.

In an era of tight budgets, the space agency's plans for further manned missions were severely curtailed.

Japanese banks hid their bad loans beneath opaque corporate structures, and curtailed new lending to profitable businesses.

The climate change band wagon has curtailed real science.

And even if it isn't, all that enjoyment must be curtailed for morality's sake.

Populations will either have to be reduced or curtailed.

Much of it cannot be curtailed because it does have positive social aspects.

Yet this does not seem to have curtailed their effectiveness.

The current economic crisis has severely curtailed the capital supply to meet the growth needed for wind energy.

The incentive to harvest fish and use the ocean to get rid of waste is not curtailed by having to pay for the cost of them.

Only a few years ago it appeared that the government's steps into the economy would be curtailed by experience.

Building projects are being curtailed under state law by developers' inability to find long-term water supplies.

It is true that access would be severely curtailed were there no such federal support for the current costs of higher education.

Once such currency mismatches are minimised, the risk of exchange-rate crises will be curtailed.

Nixon curtailed his public schedule after a complication arose from surgery he underwent last week to remove a large cancerous.

Some may still have the ability to switch to fuel oil if their supplies of natural gas or coal are curtailed somehow.

He was also an advocate for multiple sclerosis, the disease that curtailed his athletic career.

Afromsky said that recurring back pain that curtailed his travel led him and his wife to sell.

Interest rates can only be raised if the government budget deficit is curtailed.

Kmart attributed the shortfall to curtailed shopping activity because of severe winter weather.

Now imagine that kind of growth had the government curtailed immigration.

The growth culture really needs to be curtailed in virtually all aspects of life.

The ongoing energy crisis and other infrastructural problems have curtailed opportunities for private investment.

Wal-Mart warned that future sales would be curtailed as well, and no wonder:.

Food prices will be curtailed with shortening the distribution chain.

But now the steady growth of violations may be finally curtailed.

Military spending must be curtailed and other program spending cut significantly.

Simon turns her into a hideous monster before his horrible experiments are curtailed.

As criticism grew, the company severely curtailed the use of both drugs early last year.

Snow curtailed her traveling to be home to take care of her.

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Word Origin & History

curtail

late 15c., from M.Fr. courtault "made short," from court "short," from L. curtus (see curt) + -ault pejorative suffix of Gmc. origin. Originally curtal; used of horses with docked tails, which probably influenced the spelling.

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