0 present participle of curtail
1 to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something:
In addition, the governmental reactions to violence often go in the direction of further curtailing the civil rights of the popular sector.
Such an approach would be an important step in improving the overall use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and curtailing the development of resistant micro-organisms.
Faced with this reality, families made the decision to give individual choice priority over social norms and ended up curtailing their fertility.
From the perspective of evolutionary history, schizophrenia would then be a benign trait, neither enhancing nor curtailing survival to reproduction.
The state's authoritarian and expansionist project extended to curtailing the independence of the judiciary, strengthening the military, and concentrating power in the executive.
The curtailing of work-based social networks may be problematic, particularly where these have formed the basis of friendship groups.
Curtailing wage costs was regarded as the prime effective instrument for stimulating employment.
The fishery could earn additional economic rents by curtailing both excessive fishing effort and exploitation rates.
