cutting short
Stopping before completion
Cutting short means to end something before its natural or expected conclusion.
If you cut short a vacation, you return home earlier than planned; if someone cuts you short, they interrupt before you've finished speaking.
The phrase emphasizes abruptness—whatever is cut short doesn't simply end, it's terminated prematurely.
The rain cut short our picnic.
I had to cut my remarks short when the fire alarm went off.
- truncateCut off abruptly
- abbreviateReduce word length
- reduceMake smaller in degree
- curtailTo cut short
- rein inLimit or control
abridge · clip · prune · break in · condense · suspend · butt in · interrupt · nip in the bud · halt · pull the plug · minimize · guillotine · call it quits · terminate · put a stop to · lop · snip
- Incomplete Actionsunfinished, partial, halfway, midway, interrupted
- reducingshrinking, lessening, diminishing, decreasing, scaling back
cutting shortextending
Increasing in reach
lengthening · prolonging · stretching out · dragging out · drawing out
cutting shortseeing through
Perceiving hidden truth
following through · carrying on · continuing · completing · finishing
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