Kürzen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abbreviate verb To shorten by omitting parts or details.
- abridge verb To deprive; to cut off.
- abridgment noun The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- 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.
- prune noun A dried plum.
- trim verb To cut away excess from something to neaten it.
- truncate verb To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
Senses
Kürzen is used for these senses in English:
- abbreviate (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
- abridge (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested around 1350–1470]
- abridgment (dated, legal) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
- cancel (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- crop (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- curtail (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict; to keep in check.
- cut down (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
- prune (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
abbreviate — full definition
- verb To shorten by omitting parts or details.
- verb To speak or write in a brief manner.
- verb To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
- verb To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
abridge — full definition
- verb To deprive; to cut off.
- verb To debar from.
- verb To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
- verb To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.