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curtailingverbpresent participle of curtail to make less in extent or durationcurtailed the school day because of the stormy weather abbreviating, abridging, cutting back, docking, eliding, shortening, syncopating, truncating abstracting, digesting, encapsulating, epitomizing, recapitulating, summarizing, summing upabating, compressing, constricting, contracting, cutting, cutting down, paring, pruning, trimmingdecreasing, de-escalating, deflating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, moderating, modifying, reducing, retrenching, shrinking, slashing, subtracting (from), tapering elongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting enlarging, expanding, supplementingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, dilating, escalating, heightening, increasing, maximizing, pumping up, raisingblowing up, distending, inflating, swelling |