Truncations : Truncating People

trun·kate

verb (action)
[trun•kate•ed, trun•kate•ing, trun•kates]
1. To shorten by or as if by cutting off.
2. To shorten (a number) by dropping one or more digits after the decimal point.

adjective (description)
[trun•kate•ed, trun•kate•ing]
1. Having been shortened or cut off abruptly.

truncator noun (person, place or thing)
[trun·kay·tor]
1. Someone or something that truncates.

IN OTHER WORDS
cut off, cut short, crop, trim, clip, dock, prune, curtail, pare, lop, abbreviate, shorten, abridge, castrate, reduce, decrease, diminish, downsize, lessen, minify, curtail, syncopate, foreshorten, contract, condense, capsulize, encapsulate, digest, concentrate, bowdlerize, expurgate

See also précis

OPPOSITE/ANTONYM
lengthen


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