Beschneiden — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abridgment noun The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
- circumcise verb To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.
- crop noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
- curtail verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
- cut verb To divide or open something using a sharp tool such as a knife or scissors.
- pare verb To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
Senses
Beschneiden is used for these senses in English:
- abridgment (dated, legal) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
- circumcise (military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.
- crop (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- curtail (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
- curtail (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict; to keep in check.
- cut (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- fettle (ceramics) To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
- pare (transitive, often, with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
abridgment — full definition
- noun The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
- noun The state of being abridged or lessened.
- noun An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
- noun That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly
circumcise — full definition
- verb To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.
- verb To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.
- verb To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.