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Cut short

verb

Interrupt before its natural or planned end. Synonyms: break off, break short.

Cause to end earlier than intended.

Make shorter as if by cutting off. Synonym: truncate. "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent. Synonyms: clip, curtail. "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

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"Cut short" Quotes from Famous Books

... and, to add to all, his health was failing. 'My position,' was his own confession, 'is not that of gratified ambition.' His Administration only lasted five months, for at the end of that period death cut short the brilliant though erratic and disappointed career of a statesman of courage and capacity, who entered public life as a follower of Pitt, and refused in after years to pin his faith blindly to either political party, and so incurred ...

— Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid

... and made such a scene that his parents-in-law cut short their visit to the "Poplars." Jeanne was only moderately sad at their departure, for little Paul had become for her an ...

— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... with a rose in bloom right—" But Everett's gallant response to the coaxing was cut short by a ...

— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess

... the will had got out, of course, and the guests were waiting to see Mr. Dick come and take charge. I got a good bit of gossip from Miss Cobb, who had had her hair cut short after a fever and used to come out early in the morning and curl it all over her head, heating the curler on the fire log. I never smell burnt hair that I don't think of Miss Cobb trying to do the back of her neck. She was one of our regulars, and every winter for ten years she'd read me ...

— Where There's A Will • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... one time introduced a smirch of grime by which nothing was gained and a good deal lost—the abduction being not at once cut short, and the bear being suggested as the Count's actual sire (see Burton again). But he had the taste as well as the sense to cut this out. The management of the outsiders mentioned above contrasts remarkably ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

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