0 to make something shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end of it: --
Thus, the country's civic laws, institutions, and associations remain severely truncated and deformed.
The distributions of most of the service utilization and economic data were truncated and highly skewed, as is often found with this kind of data.
Moreover, the tediously long quotes could have been considerably truncated, eliminated, or relegated to footnotes.
Some of the historical material is similarly truncated.
In doing this, we truncate the fast transients of the flexible dynamics and keep only that of the rigid dynamics.
In cases in which an individual has more actual years of salary history than the specified service years, we truncated the known salary history.
One could therefore anticipate a right truncated distribution of litter sizes and consequently a small variance for high producing sows.
The thrust truncates a number of vertical mafic layers in the footwall block.