Crossword-Solution: CURTAIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Curtail | v. t. | To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. |
| Curtail | n. | The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CURTAIL | anagram | TRUCIAL |
We have 38 clues for the answer “CURTAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Apt word formed by this puzzle's missing letters | 1 answer |
| Make shorter | 3 answers |
| Cut back on expenditure | 3 answers |
| Lessen the time or extent of | 3 answers |
| retrench | 5 answers |
| subtract | 15 answers |
| Ceiling | 17 answers |
| Pare | 20 answers |
| DEPRIVE of | 25 answers |
| deduct | 26 answers |
| Abbreviate | 26 answers |
| Condense | 31 answers |
| Shorten | 35 answers |
| AMPUTATE | 36 answers |
| Cease | 39 answers |
| cut short | 41 answers |
| Abridge | 41 answers |
| Cut Back | 43 answers |
| Clip ___ | 43 answers |
| curtailment | 46 answers |
| minify | 47 answers |
| Dock | 48 answers |
| MAKE less excessive | 50 answers |
| Restrict | 52 answers |
| Staunch | 55 answers |
| Choke | 56 answers |
| dismember | 59 answers |
| Abort | 61 answers |
| Deaden | 63 answers |
| Impede | 67 answers |
| Disable | 67 answers |
| Freeze | 69 answers |
| Dissolve | 70 answers |
| Reduce | 72 answers |
| disjoin | 75 answers |
| De-crease? | 90 answers |
| Moderate | 107 answers |
| End | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAEEZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CURTAIL (5)
Israeli measures to curtail the intifadah also have pushed unemployment up and lowered living standards.
Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? Is it not on this wise?--The good at which such a State alms is to become as rich as possible, a desire which is insatiable? What then? The rulers, being aware that their power rests upon their wealth, refuse to curtail by law the extravagance of the spendthrift youth because they gain by their ruin; they take interest from them and buy up their estates and thus increase their own wealth and importance? To be sure.
VII SINCE her reinstatement in Miss Hatchard's favour Charity had not dared to curtail by a moment her hours of attendance at the library.
Israeli measures to curtail the intifadah also have added to unemployment and lowered living standards.
Curtail consumption they cannot--how can they curtail necessity? To produce more is impossible; they can work neither harder nor longer.
Quotes with CURTAIL (3)
[The] inability to comprehend fully the mysteries of God does not in any way curtail the Christian faith. On the contrary, it enhances our belief. We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.
Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted pastry dough, the cinnamon-lined chambers microscopically studded with midget raisins and chopped walnuts. By rapidly devouring mouthful after mouthful of these crumbs whose floury richness - blended of butter and sour cream and vanilla and cream cheese and egg yolk and sugar - I'd loved since childhood, perhaps I'd find vanishing from Nathan wha…
i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1981–2013).