cut short
Stop before finishing
Cut short means to end something before its natural or expected completion.
Plans, conversations, careers, and lives can all be cut short: The rain cut short our picnic.
The phrase emphasizes abruptness—something was going to continue but didn't: Her promising career was cut short by injury.
halt
Complete sudden stop
suspend · disrupt · break off · cease · discontinue · abort · derail · forestall · thwart · obstruct
abbreviate
Reduce word length
condense · summarize · compress · clip · trim · prune · pare · reduce · synopsize · distill
- measurement idiomsinch by inch, give an inch, whole nine yards, by a mile, go the extra mile
- cancelcancel, annul, nullify, invalidate, revoke
- hush commandsshh, shhh, ssh, hush up, be silent
completion status
cut shortsee through
Discern despite disguise
complete · finish · run its course · carry through · follow through
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