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Curtail vs Entails - What's the difference?

curtail | entails |

As verbs the difference between curtail and entails

is that curtail is (obsolete) to cut short the tail of an animal while entails is (entail).

As nouns the difference between curtail and entails

is that curtail is (architecture) a scroll termination, as of a step, etc while entails is .

curtail

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
  • ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
  • To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
  • When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
  • (figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
  • Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
  • * Macaulay
  • Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.

    Synonyms

    * (animal's tail) crop, dock * shorten * behedge, control, limit, restrain

    Derived terms

    * curtailer * curtailment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
  • Anagrams

    *

    entails

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (entail)
  • Anagrams

    *