Curtail vs Adjudicate - What's the difference?
curtail | adjudicate |
(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
* Macaulay
To settle a legal case or other dispute.
To act as a judge.
As verbs the difference between curtail and adjudicate
is that curtail is to cut short the tail of an animal while adjudicate is to settle a legal case or other dispute.As a noun curtail
is a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.curtail
English
Verb
(en verb)- ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
- When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
- Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
- Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.
