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Word: Truncate
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
late 15th century: from Latin truncat- ‘maimed’, from the verb truncare
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
trʌŋˈkeɪt
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈtrʌŋkeɪt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
shorten the duration or extent of
Short Definition:shorten duration or extent of
Examples:- he was a sensational player whose career was truncated by injuries
- like many women of her generation who were at school just before the war, she was obliged to truncate her education
- the novel has been truncated
Definition:
replace (an edge or an angle) by a plane, typically so as to make equal angles with the adjacent faces.
Short Definition:replace edge or angle by plane
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