Cut Short

Definition: Cut Short

Cut Short

Verb

1. Interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation".

2. Cause to end earlier than intended; "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short".

3. As of hair; "She wanted her hair cropped short".

4. Make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains".

5. Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cut Short

Cessation

Intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel; intermit, remit; put an end to, put a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill; stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check-string, pull the plug on.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Crosswords: Cut Short

It cut short that Oftener.

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Health

Have your hair cut short. (references)

Economic History

Peru

A nascent recovery in mid-2000 was cut short by political turmoil that culminated in the collapse of President Fujimori's ten-year government in November of that year, shortly after he took office for an unprecedented third term following tainted elections. (references)

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Expression using "cut short": To cut short. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏قطع الحديث (short), ‏إختصر (abbreviate, abridge, analyse, analyze, boil down, clip, curtail, limit, nick, outline, reduce, shorten, syncopate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, discard, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, slash, take off, terminate, truncate), спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), отсичам (chop, cut down, cut off, decide firmly, hew, intercept, lop, slice off, snap, strike off, stump), подрязвам (clip, dock, lop, nip, pare, scissor, trim, undercut). (various references)

Chinese 

絕 (absolutely, by no means, extinct, to disappear, to vanish). (various references)

Czech

zkrátit si, zkrátit (abbreviate, abridge, Bob, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, reduce, shorten), přerušit (abort, adjourn, black out, break off, cut off, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off). (various references)

Finnish

typistää (abridge, crop, dock, maim, mutilate), lyhentää (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, pay off, shorten). (various references)

French

interrompre (cut it short), abréger (curtail, cut down), écourter (curtail). (various references)

German

verkürzen (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut, cut down, decrease, end, foreshorten, narrow, reduce, shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to shorten), abkürzen (abbreviate, abridge, be cut, curtail, shorten, take a short cut, to abbreviate, to cut short, to shorten). (various references)

Greek 

σταματώ κάτι πριν ολοκληρωθεί. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקטוע באמצע, ל�"פסיק (cease, cut off, discontinue, interrupt, leave off, quit, stop). (various references)

Hungarian

rövidre vág (to bob, to crop, to trim), lerövidít (cut down, detruncate, short cut, to abridge, to curtail, to cut down, to nick). (various references)

Italian

abbreviare (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Manx

giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), cuttagh (abrupt, bobbed, brief, docked, runt, runty, shortened). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay ortshay

Romanian

tãia scurt, întrerupe brusc. (various references)

Russian 

резко прервать, оборвать (break off, pick off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skratiti (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, detruncate, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, syncopate, telescope, truncate), prekinuti (abort, adjourn, break off, cease, cut, cut off, disconnect, disrupt, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture, sever). (various references)

Spanish

tronchar (chop down), acortar (abbreviate, abridge, clip, curtail, cut back, shorten, turn up), abreviar (abbreviate, abridge, be quick, boil down, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Swedish

plötsligt funden. (various references)

Turkish

uzattırmamak, uzatmamak (cut out, draw it fine), susturmak (blanket, Burke, confute, gag, hush, outtalk, quiet, quieten, score off, settle smb.'s hash, shush, shut up, silence, squelch, still, Stow, wither), kısa kesmek (be brief, Bob, boil down, chop one's words, curtail, draw it fine, shingle, tell briefly, wrap it up). (various references)

Ukrainian

раптово перебивати, обривати (chop). (various references)

abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit, interrupit, interrupta, praecidam, praecidant, praecidatur, praecide, praecident, praecidentes, praecidentesque, praecidentur, praeciderem, praeciderunt, praecidi, praecidit, praeciditque, praecisa, praecisam, praecisi, praecisionis, praecisum, reseco. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shortcut.

-2 letters: chorus, chotts, courts, couths, rouths, scouth, thrust, troths, trouts, truths, tutors.

-3 letters: chott, court, couth, crush, crust, curst, hocus, horst, hours, hurst, hurts, rotch, roust, routh, routs, ruths, scour, scout, short, shott, shout, south, stour, stout, strut, sturt, thous, torch, torcs, torts, torus, touch, tours, touts, troth, trots, trout, trust, truth, tutor.

+1 letter: shortcuts.

+2 letters: cutthroats, outstretch.

+3 letters: countershot.

+4 letters: butterscotch, countermyths, countershots, outstretched, outstretches, shortcutting, trichotomous.

+5 letters: counterthrust, heterocystous, horticultures, outstretching, photocurrents, photoproducts.