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Shorten by cutting
Answer for the clue "Shorten by cutting ", 8 letters:
truncate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Latin truncatus "cut off," past participle of truncare "to maim, mutilate, cut off," from truncus "mutilated, cut off, deprived of branches or limbs" (see trunk ). Related: Truncated ; truncating .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truncate \Trun"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truncated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Truncating .] [L. truncatus, p. p. of truncare to cut off, mutilate, fr. truncus maimed, mutilated, cut short. See Trunk .] To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 truncated 2 (context botany anatomy English) Having an abrupt termination. v 1 To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it. 2 (context mathematics English) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop. 3 (context ...
Usage examples of truncate.
The buttresses are also ornamented with blind arches, and appear never to have been finished, as they are truncated in an unusual way where one would expect pinnacles.
It has the power of waving its spikelets, and of the thousand of truncated tentacles which cover the spikelets each seems to possess independent action.
He charged at the Californio, driving the man back with one combination of blows after another, many truncated, the fighting forms mixed about, the moves impossible to predict, even for him.
In the centre there is a group of elongated, cylindrical cells of unequal lengths, bluntly pointed at their upper ends, truncated or rounded at their lower ends, closely pressed together, and remarkable from being surrounded by a spiral line, which can be separated as a distinct fibre.
The greetings were in the truncated, collapsed Esperanto dialect of Vivolando.
To my left hangs a samurai sword, its truncated blade gleaming with threatening purpose.
About thirty meters from the foot of the purple slope, a human figure was standing, almost concealed, behind a pyramidal landform truncated at about shoulder height.
Waterspouts, twenty feet in diameter at their turbulent bases, streaked up whitely into the twilight, high above the truncated masts, hung there momentarily, then collapsed in drenching cascades on the bridge and boat-deck aft, soaking, saturating, every gunner on the pom-pom and in the open Oerlikon cockpits.
And the Seven Spheres of Borsippa were represented by the Seven Stories, each of a different color, of the tower or truncated pyramid of Bel at Babylon.
It was explored thus to the very summit of the truncated cone terminating the first row of rocks, then to the upper ridge of the enormous hat, at the bottom of which opened the crater.
Anderson, by the greater forward projection of the supraorbital ridges, and by its much deeper face, and the occipital region more abruptly truncated than in the other species.
Conn returned to the teleview screen in time to see the truncated cone of the extinct volcano rise on the horizon, dwarfing everything around it.
Once again she bared her ten truncated fingernails and once again they tried to seize my drum.
The presence of great truncated mounds, kindred to the pyramids of Central America, Mexico, Egypt, and India.
The seatback and the faintly vibrating, quietly humming, dimly glowing truncated cone of the engine-faring was between him and Elizabeth, a far more dangerous body.