Definitions for curtail
kərˈteɪlcur·tail

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. restrict, curtail, curb, cut backverb

   place restrictions on

   "curtail drinking in school"

2. clip, curtail, cut shortverb

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. curtailverb

   To cut short the tail of an animal

   Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.

2. curtailverb

   To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.

   When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.

3. curtailverb

   To limit or restrict, keep in check.

   Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.

4. Etymology: Alteration of curtal, from courtault, itself from court (from curtus) +

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CURTAILverb

   Etymology: curto, Latin.

   1. To cut off; to cut short; to shorten.

   I, that am curtail’d of all fair proportion,
   Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time
   Into this breathing world. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   Then why should we ourselves abridge,
   And curtail our own privilege? Hudibras, p. ii. cant. 2.

   Scribblers send us over their trash in prose and verse, with abominable curtailings and quaint modernisms. Jonathan Swift.

   This general employ, and expence of their time, would as assuredly curtail and retrench the ordinary means of knowledge and erudition, as it would shorten the opportunities of vice. John Woodward.

   Perhaps this humour of speaking no more than we must, has so miserably curtailed some of our words; and, in familiar writings and conversations, they often lose all but their first syllables. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 135.

   2. It has of before the thing cut off.

   The count assured the court, that Fact his antagonist had taken a wrong name, having curtailed it of three letters; for that his name was not Fact, but Faction. Addison.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. curtail

   Curtail means to reduce, limit, or restrict something, often in a desirable or necessary way. It typically involves cutting back or diminishing certain activities, privileges, or rights.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Curtailverb

   to cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce

2. Curtailnoun

   the scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc

3. Etymology: [See Curtal.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Curtail

   kur-tāl′, v.t. to cut short: to cut off a part: to abridge:—pr.p. curtail′ing; pa.p. curtailed′.—ns. Curtail′ment; Curtail′-step, the rounded step at the bottom of a stair. [Old spelling curtal, O. Fr. courtault (It. cortaldo)—L. curtus.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. curtail

   An ancient piece of ordnance, apparently a short one.

Matched Categories

1. • Limit

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Anagrams for curtail »

1. trucial

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How to say curtail in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of curtail in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of curtail in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of curtail in a Sentence

1. White House:

   These new measures include provisions that make it harder for people to register to vote, curtail mail-in voting and early voting, and make it easier for state officials to simply delete your voter registration.

2. Leigh Henry:

   The threat is still the gillnet, but Leigh Henry’re now dealing with a whole new industry, instead of legal shrimp fishers, we’re now dealing with transnational organized crime and people working on the black market. In the last few years, the Mexican government has stepped up its efforts to curtail poaching in the Gulf of California – the body of water that separates the Baja Peninsula from the rest of Mexico – adding in June two small boats, a number of vehicles and 135 sailors to an enforcement force deployed in 2015 under the Upper Gulf of California Integrated Protection Program. The new support joined the 13 ships, five vehicles, a helicopter-carrying ship and a plane already deployed to combat illegal fishing in the region. The U.S., which is seen as the main transshipment country for the totoaba’s bladders, has also joined in the fight against traffickers. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 1,328 pounds of totoaba fish bladders that were in route to Hong Kong. While conservationists agree that the main battle to save the totoaba and vaquita is in Mexican water, they acknowledge that the demand for the bladders in China is the reason for the illegal trade and argued that officials in Beijing and Hong Kong need to crack down on the underground fish trade. ' WORLD'S SADDEST POLAR BEAR' MOVED AFTER OUTPOURING OF OUTRAGE TOWARDS CHINESE MALL The problem, experts argue, is that wildlife trafficking is so pervasive in the world’s most populous nation that authorities are stretched thin and forced to give priority to larger cases.

3. Chuck Grassley:

   I'm at a loss to see how a call for the administration to be more transparent about decisions involving the special counsel — including any decision to fire the special counsel or curtail his investigation — would undermine the Mueller investigation.

4. Rebecca Todd Peters:

   There are a whole lot more who support bodily autonomy for mothers to make decisions about life and how many children they have and who they have them with and how to shape their future with or without partners, we've allowed a minority religious belief to curtail the rights of the majority of women in the country. I feel like I'm in the middle of a dystopian novel.

5. Timothy Sheahan:

   Oral antivirals have the potential to not only curtail the duration of one's covid-19 syndrome, but also have the potential to limit transmission to people in your household if you are sick.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=curtail
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Curtail
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=curtail
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curtail
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=curtail
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=curtail