Synonyms for curtail
kərˈteɪlcur·tail

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1. curtailverb

   Synonyms:
   limit, dock, control, shorten, restrain, crop

2. curtailverb

   To cut short the tail of an animal

   Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.

   Synonyms:
   shorten, restrain, dock, control, limit, crop

3. curtailverb

   To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.

   When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.

   Synonyms:
   dock, control, restrain, limit, shorten, crop

4. curtailverb

   To limit or restrict, keep in check.

   Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.

   Synonyms:
   dock, control, crop, limit, restrain, shorten

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1. curtail

   Synonyms:
   abbreviate, abridge, amputate, boil down, condense, cut down, epitomize, reduce, retrench, sum up, summarize

   Antonyms:
   amplify, augment, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, extend, increase, unfold, widen

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1. restrict, curtail, curb, cut backverb

   place restrictions on

   "curtail drinking in school"

   Synonyms:
   suppress, bring down, qualify, conquer, moderate, throttle, trim down, flash back, prune, inhibit, cut, trammel, trim back, lop, trim, cut down, reduce, control, subdue, curb, stamp down, hold, cut short, confine, restrain, restrict, clip, hold in, contain, bound, limit, cut back, snip, crop, dress, check

2. clip, curtail, cut shortverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   restrict, cut back, break short, jog, prune, crop, clip, trim, dress, trot, snip off, break off, truncate, lop, cut short, curb, snip, nip off

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1. curtailverb

   Synonyms:
   shorten, abridge, retrench, lop, cut short

2. curtailverb

   Synonyms:
   diminish, lessen, decrease

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1. curtailverb

   Synonyms:
   shorten, reduce, retrench

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1. List of paraphrases for "curtail":

   restrict, reduce, limit, curb, shorten

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How to use curtail in a sentence?

1. Val Ramirez:

   They are just a nuisance, we are not going to get rid of them completely. Trapping will never get rid of all of them, but at least we can try to curtail them.

2. David Madden:

   If they feel demand is weak, they'll curtail their advertising budget.

3. Steve Vladeck:

   One of the questions the Court has agreed to take up in these cases is whether, in delegating the power to President Joe Biden EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress exceeded those limits, if the Court says yes, that will not just curtail the EPA's power to respond to climate change in a moment in which it's hard to imagine that Congress will fill the gap ; it would have enormous implications for -- and impose far greater limits on -- the federal government's regulatory power writ large.

4. Rebecca Todd Peters:

   There are a whole lot more who support bodily autonomy for mothers to make decisions about life and how many children they have and who they have them with and how to shape their future with or without partners, we've allowed a minority religious belief to curtail the rights of the majority of women in the country. I feel like I'm in the middle of a dystopian novel.

5. Bill Fitzpatrick:

   While that will certainly curtail demand, I wouldn't expect to see heavy easing in terms of prices, just because there's very little excess capacity in the marketplace to absorb any additional demand, people cry wolf on oil prices.