Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cut short

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English

Syllables: cut short
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.

Transitive verb

verb

To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.

Transitive verb

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.

adj

Having been cut short, reduced.

Example Sentences

"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."
"He cut her short because he knew what she was going to say."

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

cuts short (present, singular) cutting short (participle, present) cut shorter (comparative) cut shortest (superlative)

Synonyms

clip curtail truncate break short break off

Questions

What does cut short mean?: To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.

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