detruncate

English

Etymology

From Latin detruncatus, past participle of detruncare (“to cut off”), from de + truncare (“to maim, shorten, cut off”). See truncate.

Verb

detruncate (third-person singular simple present detruncates, present participle detruncating, simple past and past participle detruncated)

1. (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to lop off.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “detruncate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• utteranced