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   truncate

   verb

   • 1. shorten the duration or extent of: "he was a sensational player whose career was truncated by injuries"
   • ▪ shorten by cutting off the top or end: "the torso has been truncated just below the neck line"
   • 2. replace (an edge or an angle) by a plane, typically so as to make equal angles with the adjacent faces.

   adjective

   • 1. (of a leaf, feather, or other part) ending abruptly as if cut off across the base or tip.

   Word Origin late 15th century: from Latin truncat- ‘maimed’, from the verb truncare.

   Derivatives

   • 1. truncately adverb

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