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Definition of "cut short" []
- Make shorter by cutting (verb)
- Interrupt and curtail before the planned end time. (verb)
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Use "cut short" in a sentence
- "She knew him, but not very well; he had been with them when she and Antony had last set sail, but seasickness had kept her in her cabin and her journey had been cut short at Corcyra."
- "Her busy life was cut short by an angry, razor-tusked boar while shooting at it drunk on her Kawasaki Mule in preparation for a luau bar mitzvah for her fifth grandson, Buster, named for Buster Keaton."
- "In the second game, Mike Torrez pitched six shutout innings, Yankee rookie Jim Beattie got shelled, Fred Lynn and Bob “Beetle” Bailey homered for the Red Sox, and Boston won, 8–1, in a game cut short by rain."