Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce or shorten by lopping or cutting off a part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
shorten by cutting; tolop off.
Etymologies
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Latin detruncatus, past participle of detruncare to cut off; de + truncare to maim, shorten, cut off. See truncate.
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