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detruncate

detruncate verb: to truncate (shorten by cutting, or lop off).

Verb

detruncate (third-person singular simple present detruncates, present participle detruncating, simple past and past participle detruncated)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To truncate (shorten by cutting, or lop off)

detruncate meaning in Urdu

detruncate in Urdu

کاٹنا چھانٹنا, مسخ کرنا, پھنگی کاٹنا

Forms of detruncate

third-person singular presentdetruncates
present participledetruncating
past participledetruncated
pastdetruncated

Origin of detruncate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dētruncātus, perfect passive participle of dētruncō (“to cut off”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + truncō (“to maim, shorten, cut off”).

Questions about detruncate

What does detruncate mean?
Detruncate means to truncate (shorten by cutting, or lop off).
What is detruncate in Urdu?
Detruncate in Urdu is کاٹنا چھانٹنا, مسخ کرنا, پھنگی کاٹنا. See Detruncate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is detruncate?
Detruncate is a verb.
What is the past tense of detruncate?
The past tense of detruncate is detruncated.

Words near detruncate in the dictionary

  1. detrumpification
  2. detrumpified
  3. detrumpifies
  4. detrumpify
  5. detrumpifying
  6. detruncate
  7. detruncated
  8. detruncates
  9. detruncating
  10. detruncation
  11. detruncations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detruncate (page history and authors); detruncate (Urdu 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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