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curtail English

Meaning curtail meaning

What does curtail mean?

curtail

— verb place restrictions on curtail drinking in school — verb (= cut short) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent My speech was cut short Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries

Synonyms curtail synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as curtail?

curtail English » English

shorten reduce abridge lessen abbreviate cut diminish restrict decrease cut down retrench cut short cut off clip slash remove limit cut back contract truncate trim shrink save lower confine circumscribe abstract take summary action take away take subtract seize recapitulate pare omit moderate mitigate make short lop eliminate economize dock deduct curb count down check be concise attenuate abate write-off

Topics curtail topics

What do people use curtail to talk about?
States Quantity More

Decrease
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something

Conjugation curtail conjugation

How do you conjugate curtail?

curtail · verb

Examples curtail examples

How do I use curtail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

On July 16, 1439, King Henry VI banned kissing in England to curtail the spread of the plague.

Movie subtitles

Lieutenant, you should curtail the celebrations for the time being.
You know, fired, management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area, so many people are no longer viable members of the workforce.
You made me curtail my evening's entertainment.
We have to help the Colombians in their struggle to curtail the drug cartels' activities.
We have come up with a plan that has the potential to seriously curtail the Maquis.
The King wants me back. Do you think he will curtail his amours with the actresses of the playhouse?
And so are you taking military action to curtail this growth rate?
Every time you take away one of our freedoms, every time we restrict or curtail one of our rights, we become one step closer to being like them.
She left me a voice mail checking in on me, suggesting I curtail my drinking.
Kindly curtail your vulgarity in our presence. While the call to Allah is underway, this is a house of worship.
They claim that CO2, which plants breath was killing the Earth - and that we must reduce the number of children we have - to curtail our carbon footprint.
OK, so I would propose we curtail.
OK, I'm gonna propose that we curtail this interview forthwith.
Perhaps we could curtail our ramblings amongst the dead and get down to the business of the living.
You'll go back to conducting your tests according to regulations and curtail your personal ambitions and experiments.
When students break the rules, we curtail their freedom.
You can't curtail the criminal element by sinking to their level.
I am to do whatever is necessary to curtail this problem.
Accountant says I got to curtail my spending this quarter.
Yet, John Cage never lifted a finger to curtail any of it.
Kindly curtail your vulgarity in our presence.
My regret is that I did nothing to stop or in any way curtail his atrocious behaviour.
If he felt obliged to curtail his progress and hurry back, only to find the Prince quite recovered.
Curtail my ascent!
To be sure to break the German defenses, I suggest to curtail the army's line of attack by 6 kilometers, thereby increasing the density of artillery barrels up to 300 guns per a kilometer of the front.
And I will not let you, Sergean Cass, or anybody curtail its chances, okay?
Administrators have to be freer to curtail students' civil liberties. including disruptive speech.
Perhaps we could curtail our ramblings amongst the dead and get down to the business of the living. And the making of a living?
They muster willpower to curtail that..
Curtail it, I say!
Tell me about the behavior you want to curtail.
And I am sorry it has taken you so long to curtail them.
So, it was a completely logical choice you made to curtail this Nico activity?

News and current affairs

The specter of a nuclear Iran haunts Arabs and Israelis alike, but it is the United States and Israel that are the driving force behind efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Developing countries ask why they should pay attention to global warming if rich countries are not prepared to curtail their own emissions sharply?
The only rational course of action would seem to be to curtail global consumption of fossil fuels, as the Kyoto Treaty's proponents contend, and invest in alternative energy sources.
One way to curtail this problem is to delay full integration of immigrants into the welfare system of a host country for a few years-a reform advocated by the Scientific Advisory Committee to Germany's Federal Finance Ministry.
Suddenly, foreign creditors curtail short-term credit lines.
I have a different interpretation: it is testimony to the importance of a free press, which may not stop but can curtail abuses.
The financial industry complains that efforts to force greater equity funding would curtail lending, but this is just nonsense in a general equilibrium setting.
A crucial corollary of this strategy is large-scale technology transfer to developing countries, allowing them both to grow and to curtail their emissions.
As banks curtail lending to each other, to other financial institutions, and to the corporate sector, central banks are becoming the only lenders around.
Third, in the advanced economies, the hit to wealth, and even more so the specter of another Great Depression, has led people and firms to curtail spending sharply.
But this raises the risk of fragmentation, which, if allowed to go far enough, could curtail the Internet's economic benefits.
But banks used all their political muscle to stop states from enacting laws to curtail predatory lending.
In fact, most Russians are indifferent to the government's efforts to curtail press freedom and limit the right to protest.
Checks on security measures that curtail the freedoms that give our lives dignity are as imperative as protection.
Eliminating it will not only help farmers and the West as it tries to curtail heroin use, but also Afghanistan's infant government as it struggles to assert its national authority against the warlords.
But Obama's team does concede one point: New START fails to curtail Russia's large numerical advantage in tactical nuclear weapons.
Bankers, who may really be worried about their own bonuses, warn that higher capital requirements will force them to curtail lending, thus impeding economic growth.
British citizens, too, routinely rose up against efforts to curtail press freedom.
Even China, which arguably seeks to curtail US leadership in some domains, has no choice but to cooperate with the US and its allies on many foreign-policy issues.
Second, in an effort to curtail excess bank lending, reserve ratios were increased nine times in the past 11 months.
For example, some tax systems are more corruption-resistant than others, because they curtail the discretionary authority of tax officials.
Imposing severe restrictions on the growth of their emissions growth would impede their GDP growth and severely curtail their ability to climb out of poverty.
In some parts of Africa, cotton growers are expanding production, providing proof that if the US and Europe did somehow curtail their own cotton output, Africans could plug the gap.

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