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leg below the knee;
); The surgeon told him they needed to amputate his left
• (truncate)- to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short, (
); Dead specimens may not show this feature resulting in
a rather truncated appearance;
• (whittle)- to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off
bits with a knife, ( , , ); I remarked to him that he
need not whittle off the edges. — The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln;
• (hew)- to to pieces with ax or sword; I sat on a rude wooden bench of
newly-hewed wood, lit my pipe again without interference. — Valley of the
Croen;
• (dismember)- to divide into parts; cut to pieces; mutilate, ( -
); When he falls insensible, they scalp and dismember him, and
the remainder of his body is consumed. — The First White Man of the West;
• (curtail)- to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish, (
); The variegated and evolving limitations on intellectual property are as
important as the rights they constrain, curtail, and define. — The Public
Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind;
• (abstract)- a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.;
epitome, ( , , );
• thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual
instances, ( , , ); God in the abstract is not a real
existence any more than tree in the abstract is a real existence. — Theism or
Atheism The Great Alternative;
• (abridged)- to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.;
diminish; curtail, ( ); Power
controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by
which it is controlled or abridged. — The Federalist Papers;
• (abbreviate)- to reduce (anything) in length, duration, etc.; make briefer,
( , ); Sometimes it is necessary
to abbreviate a word by leaving out several letters. — How to Speak and Write
Correctly;
• (protract)- to draw out or lengthen, esp. in time; extend the duration of,
( / ); The quarrel of the two Andronici was protracted,
and suspended, and renewed, during a ruinous period of seven years. —
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6;