The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curtail \Cur*tail"\ (k[u^]r*t[=a]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curtailed (-t[=a]ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Curtailing.] [See Curtal.] To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion.
--Shak.
Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been
doubled.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of curtail English)
Usage examples of "curtailing".
But Monty, curse him, would be watching her like a hawk from now on, curtailing her profitable sideline in viable egg smuggling.
Congress approved an immigration act curtailing the entry of Southern and Eastern Europeans.
It soon became clear to Mandelstim, from what his sole patient told him, that for the moment Stalin's fear was considerably curtailing his murderous instincts.
We may suspect the miserly nobleman of curtailing it for his purposes.
The king's policy had been to set up the royal justice and power, and to break the strength of the barons by dividing and curtailing their interests.
I felt that I was cruel to a whole neighborhood in curtailing her liberty in this most important season for harvesting the different wild herbs that were so much counted upon to ease their winter ails.
And then the housekeeping, the planning, the arranging, the curtailing, the keeping up appearances upon a limited income.