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truncate
to shorten by cutting off a part
Synonyms
- shorten
- curtail
- abbreviate
Antonyms
- lengthen
- extend
- expand
truncate in a sentence
The editor had to truncate the article to fit the available space.
The database will truncate any response longer than five hundred characters.
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.
Read it in context
- The Unsmoothed Voice Narrative