OBTRUNCATE

Definition: OBTRUNCATE

OBTRUNCATE

Transitive verb

1. To deprive of a limb; to lop.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Obtruncate \Ob*trun"cate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression obtruncatus, past participle of obtruncare.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Shortness	Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "OBTRUNCATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pres majë (cut back, trim, truncate), pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack). (various references)

Bulgarian		отрязвам горния край на, отрязвам главата. (various references)

Hungarian		lefejez (behead, decapitate, to behead, to decapitate). (various references)

Pig Latin		obtruncateay

Portuguese		ser intrometido. (various references)

Romanian		reteza (clip, cut, hoe, prune, sever, slash). (various references)

Russian		обрезать (circumcise, clip, cut off, pare, prune, truncate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odrubiti (chop off), odrezati (cut off, snip). (various references)

Spanish		truncar (garble, mangle, truncate). (various references)

Swedish		skära av (crop, cut off, intercept, top, Whittle). (various references)

Ukranian		обрізувати верхівку, зрізати верхівку (top). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "OBTRUNCATE" (pronounced 'Ob*trun"cate'): Aberuncate, Averruncate, Baccate, Bisaccate, Bisulcate, Braccate, Conculcate, Conspurcate, Crebrisulcate, inculcate, infuscate, Mucate, Multisulcate, Opacate, pacate, Porcate, Pyromucate, Quadrisulcate, relocate, Saccate, Siccate, Subaduncate, vacate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-n-o-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: betatron, buttoner, courante, obturate, outrance, rebutton, tabouret, truncate, turncoat.
	-3 letters: abettor, abutter, baronet, bouncer, centaur, cornute, counter, courant, curtate, enactor, outearn, outrace, outrate, reboant, recount, taboret, taunter, trounce, unbrace, uncrate.
	-4 letters: acuter, arbute, atoner, attorn, attune, banter, batten, batter, battue, beacon, bettor, boater, borane, borate, bounce, bourne, brunet, bunter, burnet, burton, butane, butter.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-n-o-r-t-t-u"
	+2 letters: counterblast.
	+3 letters: counterblasts, subcontracted.
	+5 letters: antituberculous, enterobacterium, subcontraoctave.
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