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cut short

v. cause to end earlier than intended; "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"

crop, cut short

v. cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"

truncate, cut short

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

cut, cut short, cut through

v. abridge or shorten

clip, curtail, cut short

v. terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

cut short, break short, break off

v. interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation"

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dismember, take apart, discerp

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

amputate, cut off

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

disjoin, disjoint

v. become separated, disconnected or disjoint

maim

v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"

mutilate, mangle, cut up

v. destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"

discerp, sever, lop

v. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

chop, chop up

v. cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat"

detach

v. separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"

detach, come off, come away

v. come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

dismember

v. separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"

chip, knap, cut off, break off

v. break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"

foreshorten

v. shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

shave, trim

v. cut closely; "trim my beard"

pare, pare down

v. decrease gradually or bit by bit

cut

v. shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of; "cut my hair"

foreshorten

v. shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

decrease, diminish, lessen, fall

v. decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

decrease, lessen, minify

v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

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lengthen

v. make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please"

lengthen

v. make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please"

increase

v. make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"

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