Cutdown vs Curtail - What's the difference?
cutdown | curtail |
(surgery) An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it.
A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.
(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
As nouns the difference between cutdown and curtail
is that cutdown is (surgery) an emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it while curtail is (architecture) a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.As a verb curtail is
(obsolete) to cut short the tail of an animal.cutdown
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Noun
(en noun)curtail
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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.