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truncate
Meaning: to shorten by cutting off a part
truncate in a sentence
How truncate is used in real sentences:
The editor had to truncate the article to fit the available space.
The database will truncate any response longer than five hundred characters.
“She would not truncate the argument by quietly cutting its most disturbing pages, since omission would make the author appear kinder than he was.”
— from the passage The Unsmoothed Voice
Synonyms for truncate
Other words for truncate — shorten, curtail and abbreviate — carry the same meaning.
- shorten
- curtail
- abbreviate
Antonyms of truncate
Words that mean the opposite of truncate:
- lengthen
- extend
- expand
Where it comes from
From Latin truncare, meaning 'to cut short.'
Memory hook
TRUNCATE contains TRUNK: truncate a tree by cutting off part of its trunk.