Curtail: alternatives and connections

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

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A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.

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Restricted.

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to write or engrave around.

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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.

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The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.

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To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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To bend or curve

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Restricted.

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