Curtail vs Entails - What's the difference?
curtail | entails |
(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 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)- ''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.