beschneiden — meaning in English

English meaning

abridgment noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
circumcise verb To cut off the foreskin from a penis.
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 cut away the outer skin or covering of something, usually with a knife.

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.

noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
noun The condition of having been made shorter or reduced.
noun A shortened version of a book or other piece of writing.
noun Something that cuts time short, such as an amusement that makes the time seem to fly by.

verb To cut off the foreskin from a penis.
verb To cut off the clitoris, its hood, or the labia.
verb To cut off the worn, protruding end of a large naval gun's barrel liner after repeated firing has stretched it out.