truncate

/TRUN-kayt/verb

to shorten by cutting off a part

The outage truncated the ceremony to ten minutes.
Synonyms
shorten, cut, curtail
Antonyms
lengthen, extend
Memory hook
truncus (trunk): lopped like a trunk.

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