Curtail is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CURTAIL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cut short
• reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on
• deprive someone of (something)
• To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
• place restrictions on
• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
• cut short
NOUN:
• The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.

Words related to CURTAIL

curtailed12 curtailer11 curtailers12 curtailing13 curtailment15 curtails10

Words that contain CURTAIL

curtails10 curtailed12 curtailer11 curtailers12 curtailing13 curtailment15 uncurtailed14 curtailments16

How to use CURTAIL in a sentence

• We were obliged to curtail our stay at Bourneville, our country home.
• Great Britain has the good sense to curtail expenses, and the sterling tends always to improve.
• Lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, abate, curtail, moderate, mitigate, palliate.
• The nobles and the clergy adhered tenaciously to their privileges, and the Court would curtail none of its unnecessary expenses.
• The King did not leave her by his will a large fortune, so that she was obliged to curtail her charities.
• Hence anything which will curtail our sufferings and add to our pleasures or our powers, should be sought as the highest good.
• She told him that, as the accommodation at her disposal was so small, she only took boarders for a limited time, and this of course enabled him to curtail his inquiries.
• They waited till the whole army was once more united in Libya, and then endeavoured to curtail the pay promised to the men.
• In 1825 an effort was made by the Bank of England to curtail the issues of the country banks under the most favorable circumstances.
• Let no mother fear, then, that the measures necessary to establish for her the most absolute authority over her children will at all curtail her power to promote their happiness.
• Who shall stay its ravages, or curtail its power? My conviction is, and for years has been, that the only hope is in giving the ballot to women.
• The whole story indeed is so excellent, and is told by the narrator with so much spirit, that it were pity to curtail it, and as it stands it would be too long for these pages.
• The Food Controller asks us to curtail our consumption of bread by one-fourth.
• Of course he could not curtail that, nor would he desire to do so.
• In 1710, Virginia sought to curtail the importation by placing a duty of L5 on each slave.
• The only moral force we know of, that has curtailed, or will curtail, the family within the limits of comfortable subsistence, is sexual inhibition with prudence.
• I deemed it expedient to curtail our allowance of provisions this evening.
• Rolleston, felt impelled to try if she could not curtail her sentence of banishment.
• It would be in their power, too, to curtail those banks to the amount of their actual specie, by gathering up their paper, and running it constantly on them.
• Changes in the type of farming may also curtail his income.
• Hence the civilian has less time to receive Indian visitors, and he is often obliged to curtail the period he spends during the year in camp.
• I have decided to curtail my visit by a few days, under the circumstances.
• Neither will seek to curtail the specific and undoubted authority with which both have been divinely invested.
• I think President McKinley, doubtless with the best and purest intentions, did still more to curtail the dignity and authority of the office.
• Now that she had to earn most of the income of the household, for herself she had very few personal expenses to curtail.
• It was too much like trying to curtail the powers of Parliament by act of Parliament.
• They might curtail the revenues of the temple, but they would be powerless against the Christian faith of those who lived under its protection.
• This would temporarily curtail profits, and other prices would, after readjustment, be in a different ratio to wages.
• Owing to considerations of space, I have had to curtail largely the folk-lore section.
• To curtail our submarine weapon means a lengthening of the war.
• But the difference in duty in the latter case was not sufficient to curtail the profits of the smuggler to any material extent.
• He sought opportunities for saying and doing things that might curtail the length of those hours when Claudius sat at her side, ostensibly reading.
• For good or evil he greatly developed and complicated the teaching of Christ, but the Edicts of Asoka if compared with the Pitakas seem to curtail and simplify their doctrines.
• The magistrate was very strong on the subject of French immorality, but he was unluckily obliged to curtail his remarks on account of the ladies.

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