cut short en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
- (adjective, error-misspelling, participle) Having been cut short, reduced.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cut shortest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| cut shorter | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
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cut short en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
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(transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.
2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:The party was cut short because everything was getting broken.
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(transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
He cut her short because he knew what she was going to say.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cuts short | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| cut short | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| cut short | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| cutting short | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Translations (15)
mi keremutu (to curtail) · pl ukrócać (to curtail) · pl przerywać (to interrupt and stop so. from speaking on and on) · es cortar (to interrupt and stop so. from speaking on and on) · pl przerwać (to interrupt and stop so. from speaking on and on) · de beenden (to curtail) · pl ukrócić (to curtail) · de verkürzen (to curtail) · pt sustar (to curtail) · mi inaki (to curtail) · de jmdm. das Wort abschneiden (to interrupt and stop so. from speaking on and on) · grc κολούω (to curtail) · de jmdm. ins Wort fallen (to interrupt and stop so. from speaking on and on) · de abbrechen (to curtail) · es interrumpir (to interrupt and stop so. from speaking on and on)