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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Curtail \Cur*tail"\ (k[u^]r*t[=a]l"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Curtailed} (-t[=a]ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curtailing}.] [See {Curtal}.] To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. --Shak.
Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. --Macaulay.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "curtailed": abated, abbreviated, ablated, abridged, abstracted, attenuated, bated, belittled, bobbed, capsule, capsulized, clipped, compressed, condensed, consumed, contracted, cropped, cut short, decreased, deflated, digested, diminished, dissipated, docked, dropped, elided, elliptic, eroded, fallen, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, mowed, mown, nipped, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shaved, sheared, shorn, short-cut, shortened, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, snub, snubbed, trimmed, watered-down, weakened, worn
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