Usually means: Reduce or limit something significantly.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. curtail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. curtail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curtail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curtail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curtail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curtail, curtail: Wordnik
  7. curtail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curtail: Wiktionary
  9. curtail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curtail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curtail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curtail, curtail: Dictionary.com
  13. curtail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. curtail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Curtail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. curtail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. curtail: Rhymezone
  18. Curtail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. curtail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Curtail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. curtail: Free Dictionary
  22. curtail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. curtail: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. curtail: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. curtail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CURTAIL: Accounting Glossary
  2. curtail: Legal dictionary
  3. curtail: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curtail: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curtail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. curtail: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See curtailed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
verb:  (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
noun:  (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

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