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truncate
verb
    truncated, truncating
    1. To cut something, eg a tree, word, piece of writing, etc, so as to shorten it.
      Thesaurus: cut, shorten, clip, crop, pare, prune, trim, lop, curtail, abbreviate, abridge.
adj
    1. Said eg of a leaf: having the base or tip cut square.
      Form: truncated (also)
Derivative: truncated
adj
      Example: gave a truncated version of his lecture
Derivative: truncately
adverb
    Derivative: truncation
    noun
      Etymology: 15c: from Latin truncare, truncatum to shorten.



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