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Meanings of truncate in English

Portuguese
truncar
Catalan
desgastar

Make shorter as if by cutting off.

        truncar

        Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off.

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              Examples for "cut short"
              Examples for "cut short"
              1
              Olmert cut short a visit to Europe on Wednesday and returned home.
              Reuters
              2
              Whatever answer Brunetti might have given was cut short by Antonia's return.
              Death at La Fenice
              3
              But the celebrations were cut short by the referendum result in Italy.
              The Irish Times
              4
              Dear Jessica, I'm sorry things got cut short at your house tonight.
              Heartless
              5
              The show's run was cut short by the pandemic earlier this year.
              The Guardian
              Usage of truncate in English
              1
              The other ones I try all truncate the process in various ways.
              The Guardian
              2
              The easiest is to truncate them by hand when they become large.
              Essential system administration, 3rd edition
              3
              The truncate, cone-shaped breach has often been of great use to me.
              Bramble-Bees and Others
              4
              Cells oblong, narrowed below, broad and truncate, with an angle externally above.
              Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
              5
              You must not alter or truncate the work in any way.
              Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
              6
              This is a small inflated species, with a short truncate spire.
              Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
              7
              Hamilton used to say, 'truncate a problem which I cannot solve.'
              Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the pri...
              8
              If the transaction log does fill up, there are several options to truncate it:
              Backup & recovery
              9
              Cells adnate, conical, slightly curved, truncate at bottom, narrow at top; mouth vertical, external.
              Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
              10
              Near by is Sentinel Rock, a solitary truncate pinnacle, towering to thirty-three hundred feet.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 / A Magazine...
              11
              For the love of Heaven, truncate your abominable periods.
              Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
              12
              But let me truncate the discussion for you.
              The Guardian
              13
              Also, RSS news aggregators sometimes truncate your headlines.
              Website optimization
              14
              If necessary, truncate the current log file.
              Automating system administration with perl
              15
              No likely deleterious variants were identified; notably no mutations that were predicted to truncate the protein were identified.
              Pubmed
              16
              That is why the abduction of our daughters and the attempt to truncate their education is so unacceptable.
              The Guardian
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              Translations for truncate
              Truncate through the time