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