To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
To trim the hoof of a horse.
To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
To sharpen a pencil.
To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
Truncated.
Having an abrupt termination.