curtail

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɜːˈteɪl/
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• US: /kɚˈteɪl/
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• rhymes with -eɪl
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• CMU ARPABET: K ER0 T EY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Alteration of curtal, from Old French courtault (“which has been shortened”), itself from court (“short”) (from Latin curtus) + -ault

121 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: подрязвам (podrjazvam) — cut short an animal's tail
• Catalan: escurçar — cut short an animal's tail
• Dutch: beknotten — cut short an animal's tail
• Dutch: knotten — cut short an animal's tail
• Dutch: kortwieken — cut short an animal's tail
• Dutch: bekorten — cut short an animal's tail
• Dutch: inkorten — cut short an animal's tail
• Dutch: verkorten — cut short an animal's tail
• Finnish: typistää — cut short an animal's tail
• French: écourter — cut short an animal's tail
• Galician: derrabar — cut short an animal's tail
• German: kupieren — cut short an animal's tail
• Norwegian Bokmål: kupere — cut short an animal's tail
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kupere — cut short an animal's tail
• Polish: ukracać — cut short an animal's tail
• Polish: ukrócić — cut short an animal's tail
• Polish: skracać — cut short an animal's tail
• Polish: skrócić — cut short an animal's tail
• Portuguese: derrabar — cut short an animal's tail
• Russian: укора́чивать (ukoráčivatʹ) — cut short an animal's tail
• Russian: укороти́ть (ukorotítʹ) — cut short an animal's tail
• Russian: обреза́ть (obrezátʹ) — cut short an animal's tail
• Russian: обре́зать (obrézatʹ) — cut short an animal's tail
• Sicilian: accurzari — cut short an animal's tail
• Spanish: acortar — cut short an animal's tail
• Bulgarian: скъсявам (skǎsjavam) — shorten or abridge
• Bulgarian: съкращавам (sǎkraštavam) — shorten or abridge
• Catalan: escurçar — shorten or abridge
• Chinese Mandarin: 縮減 /缩减 (suōjiǎn) — shorten or abridge
• Chinese Mandarin: 精簡 /精简 (jīngjiǎn) — shorten or abridge
• Czech: zkrátit — shorten or abridge
• Czech: zredukovat — shorten or abridge
• Danish: forkorte — shorten or abridge
• Dutch: beknotten — shorten or abridge
• Dutch: knotten — shorten or abridge
• Dutch: kortwieken — shorten or abridge
• Dutch: bekorten — shorten or abridge
• Dutch: inkorten — shorten or abridge
• Dutch: verkorten — shorten or abridge
• Finnish: lyhentää — shorten or abridge
• French: écourter — shorten or abridge
• French: abréger — shorten or abridge
• Galician: recortar — shorten or abridge
• Galician: acurtar — shorten or abridge
• Galician: abreviar — shorten or abridge
• German: beschneiden — shorten or abridge
• German: stutzen — shorten or abridge
• German: verkürzen — shorten or abridge
• Ancient Greek: συντέμνω (suntémnō) — shorten or abridge
• Hebrew: קִצֵּרקִצֵּר (kitsér) — shorten or abridge
• Hebrew: צִמְצֵם (tsimtsém) — shorten or abridge
• Ido: rekortar — shorten or abridge
• Ido: abreviar — shorten or abridge
• Irish: giorraigh — shorten or abridge
• Kazakh: қысқарту (qysqartu) — shorten or abridge
• Māori: auporo — shorten or abridge
• Māori: tauporo — shorten or abridge
• Māori: totope — shorten or abridge
• Norwegian Bokmål: forkorte — shorten or abridge
• Norwegian Nynorsk: forkorte — shorten or abridge
• Polish: skracać — shorten or abridge
• Polish: skrócić — shorten or abridge
• Polish: zmniejszać — shorten or abridge
• Polish: zmniejszyć — shorten or abridge
• Polish: uszczuplać — shorten or abridge
• Polish: uszczuplić — shorten or abridge
• Portuguese: encurtar — shorten or abridge
• Russian: сокраща́ть (sokraščátʹ) — shorten or abridge
• Russian: сократи́ть (sokratítʹ) — shorten or abridge
• Russian: уреза́ть (urezátʹ) — shorten or abridge
• Russian: уре́зать (urézatʹ) — shorten or abridge
• Scottish Gaelic: giorraich — shorten or abridge
• Serbo-Croatian: skratiti — shorten or abridge
• Serbo-Croatian: smanjiti — shorten or abridge
• Sicilian: accurzari — shorten or abridge
• Sicilian: truncari — shorten or abridge
• Spanish: acortar — shorten or abridge
• Bulgarian: ограни́чавам (ograníčavam) — limit or restrict
• Chinese Mandarin: 限制 (xiànzhì) — limit or restrict
• Chinese Mandarin: 制約 /制约 (zhìyuē) — limit or restrict
• Czech: omezit — limit or restrict
• Czech: zredukovat — limit or restrict
• Czech: snížit — limit or restrict
• Danish: begrænse — limit or restrict
• Dutch: beknotten — limit or restrict
• Dutch: kort houden — limit or restrict
• Dutch: kortwieken — limit or restrict
• Dutch: beperken — limit or restrict
• Estonian: piirama — limit or restrict
• Finnish: rajoittaa — limit or restrict
• French: restreindre — limit or restrict
• Galician: limitar — limit or restrict
• Galician: coartar — limit or restrict
• Galician: restrinxir — limit or restrict
• German: beschränken — limit or restrict
• German: beschneiden — limit or restrict
• German: drosseln — limit or restrict
• German: kürzen — limit or restrict
• Māori: totope — limit or restrict
• Norwegian Bokmål: begrense — limit or restrict
• Norwegian Nynorsk: avgrense — limit or restrict
• Polish: ukrócać — limit or restrict
• Polish: ukrócić — limit or restrict
• Polish: redukować — limit or restrict
• Polish: zredukować — limit or restrict
• Polish: limitować — limit or restrict
• Polish: ograniczać — limit or restrict
• Polish: ograniczyć — limit or restrict
• Polish: tłumić — limit or restrict
• Polish: stłumić — limit or restrict
• Portuguese: limitar — limit or restrict
• Portuguese: restringir — limit or restrict
• Russian: ограни́чивать (ograníčivatʹ) — limit or restrict
• Russian: ограни́чить (ograníčitʹ) — limit or restrict
• Serbo-Croatian: ograničiti — limit or restrict
• Serbo-Croatian: stegnuti — limit or restrict
• Sicilian: limitari — limit or restrict
• Sicilian: strìnciri — limit or restrict
• Sicilian: tèniri — limit or restrict
• Sicilian: trattèniri — limit or restrict
• Ottoman Turkish: قاصمق (kasmak) — limit or restrict