Synonyms of the word

curtail

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal.
• v. (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
• n. (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

circumscribe

• v. To draw a line around; to encircle.
• v. To limit narrowly; to restrict.
• v. (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc…

clip

• v. To grip tightly.
• v. To fasten with a clip.
• v. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
• v. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
• n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
• n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
• n. (obsolete) An embrace.
• n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm…
• n. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the…
• n. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
• v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
• v. To curtail; to cut short.
• v. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
• v. (American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting…
• v. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
• v. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering…
• v. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
• n. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole.
• n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
• n. (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
• n. (informal) A blow with the hand.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

limit

• n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
• n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
• n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
• v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

restrict

• v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
• v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
• adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

shorten

• v. (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
• v. (intransitive) To become shorter.
• v. (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
• v. (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
• v. (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
• v. (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.