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cutting short

cutting short is the present participle and gerund of cut short.

Meaning of cut short

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.
  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.

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Questions about cutting short

What is cutting short the present participle and gerund of?
Cutting short is the present participle and gerund of cut short.

Words near cutting short in the dictionary

  1. cutting out the middleman
  2. cutting red tape
  3. cutting room
  4. cutting rooms
  5. cutting round
  6. cutting short
  7. cutting slingload
  8. cutting some shapes
  9. cutting someone cold
  10. cutting someone dead
  11. cutting someone loose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cutting short (page history and authors); cut short (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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