укора́чивать — meaning in English
ukorachivat
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English meaning
- abridge verb To deprive; to cut off.
- curtail verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
- dock noun A structure at a harbour where ships load, unload, or are repaired.
- shorten verb To make something shorter in length, duration, or extent.
Senses
укора́чивать is used for these senses in English:
- abridge (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested around 1350–1470]
- curtail (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of (an animal).
- dock (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- shorten (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
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.
curtail — full definition
- verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
- verb To restrict a freedom, right or activity, limiting what someone is allowed to do.