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cut short

cut short verb: to interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.

Verb

cut short (third-person singular simple present cuts short, present participle cutting short, simple past and past participle cut short)

  1. (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
    • The party was cut short because everything was getting broken.
    • The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian
  2. (transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
    • He cut her short because he knew what she was going to say.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.

Adjective

cut short (comparative cut shorter, superlative cut shortest)

  1. (adjective, error-misspelling, participle) Having been cut short, reduced.

cut short meaning in Tamil

cut short in Tamil

வெட்டிச் சிறிதாக்கு

Forms of cut short

Verb
third-person singular presentcuts short
present participlecutting short
past participlecut short
pastcut short
Adjective
comparativecut shorter
superlativecut shortest

Questions about cut short

What does cut short mean?
Cut short means to interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
What is cut short in Tamil?
Cut short in Tamil is வெட்டிச் சிறிதாக்கு. See Cut short meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cut short?
Cut short can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of cut short?
The past tense of cut short is cut short.

Words near cut short in the dictionary

  1. cut round
  2. cut scene
  3. cut scenes
  4. cut sheet
  5. cut sheets
  6. cut short
  7. cut sig
  8. cut signature
  9. cut signatures
  10. cut sigs
  11. cut slingload

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cut short (page history and authors); cut short (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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