cut short

Questions about cut short

What does cut short mean?

cut short means "interrupt before its natural or planned end". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cut short?

Close synonyms include break short, break off, truncate, clip, curtail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cut short a common word?

cut short is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.