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Cut short

verb

Interrupt before its natural or planned end. Synonyms: break off, break short.

Cause to end earlier than intended.

Make shorter as if by cutting off. Synonym: truncate. "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent. Synonyms: clip, curtail. "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

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"Cut short" Quotes from Famous Books

... countries?" said Gaudissart. "Well, Monsieur, to cut short discussion on this point, I will say, once for all, that death in foreign countries or on the field of battle ...

— The Illustrious Gaudissart • Honore de Balzac

... century began to cut short the days of tribulation; but some countries shut out the liberalizing influences of the Word of God, and there ...

— Our Day - In the Light of Prophecy • W. A. Spicer

... the girl sipped her cocoa, turning the egg-shell like cup to catch the light, she wondered what she could still do to help her dear Gray Lady and to prove her own love. Then her dreaming was cut short by a hubbub of merry voices without, and, a moment later, a crowd of young folks tumbled through the big window, laughing, ...

— Dorothy on a Ranch • Evelyn Raymond

... Caesar cut short negotiations. Pharnaces was at Zela, a town in the midst of mountains behind Trebizond, and the scene of a great victory which had been won by Mithridates over the Romans. Caesar defied auguries. He seized a position at night on the brow of a hill directly opposite to ...

— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude

... same aim, and this same result may be equally pursued and attained whether here or yonder. It is something to have a course of life which runs straight along, unbent aside, and not cut short off, by the change from earth to Heaven. And this felicity he only has who, amidst things temporal and insignificant, sees and seeks the eternal smile on the face of his unchanging Saviour. On earth, in death, through ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

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