We can say that there's not a clear winner in terms of a policy to curtail medical expenses and benefits.
Source: tatoeba (27894)
Curtail
//kɜːˈteɪl//
Synonyms for "curtail" (194 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (58)
Related words (97)
hold in leashhold upimpairinhibitkeepkeep backkeep fromkeep inkeep in checkkeep under controlknitlay under restraintleachlessenlighten one oflourlowermilkmineminify
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2 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
101 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- συντέμνω verb (shorten or abridge)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ограни́чавам verb (limit or restrict)
- подрязвам verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- скъсявам verb (shorten or abridge)
- съкращавам verb (shorten or abridge)
Catalan
2 entries- escurçar verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- escurçar verb (shorten or abridge)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 制約 /制约 verb (limit or restrict)
- 精簡 /精简 verb (shorten or abridge)
- 縮減 /缩减 verb (shorten or abridge)
- 限制 verb (limit or restrict)
Czech
2 entries- omezit verb (limit or restrict)
- zkrátit verb (shorten or abridge)
Danish
2 entries- begrænse verb (limit or restrict)
- forkorte verb (shorten or abridge)
Dutch
4 entries- beknotten verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- beknotten verb (shorten or abridge)
- beknotten verb (limit or restrict)
- bekorten verb (cut short an animal's tail)
Estonian
1 entries- piirama verb (limit or restrict)
Finnish
3 entries- lyhentää verb (shorten or abridge)
- rajoittaa verb (limit or restrict)
- typistää verb (cut short an animal's tail)
French
4 entries- abréger verb (shorten or abridge)
- restreindre verb (limit or restrict)
- écourter verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- écourter verb (shorten or abridge)
Galician
4 entries- abreviar verb (shorten or abridge)
- acurtar verb (shorten or abridge)
- coartar verb (limit or restrict)
- derrabar verb (cut short an animal's tail)
German
4 entries- beschneiden verb (shorten or abridge)
- beschneiden verb (limit or restrict)
- beschränken verb (limit or restrict)
- drosseln verb (limit or restrict)
Hebrew
2 entries- צִמְצֵם verb (shorten or abridge)
- קִצֵּרקִצֵּר verb (shorten or abridge)
Ido
2 entries- abreviar verb (shorten or abridge)
- rekortar verb (shorten or abridge)
Irish
1 entries- giorraigh verb (shorten or abridge)
Kazakh
1 entries- қысқарту verb (shorten or abridge)
Māori
4 entries- auporo verb (shorten or abridge)
- auporo verb (shorten or abridge)
- tauporo verb (shorten or abridge)
- totope verb (shorten or abridge)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- begrense verb (limit or restrict)
- forkorte verb (shorten or abridge)
- kupere verb (cut short an animal's tail)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- avgrense verb (limit or restrict)
- forkorte verb (shorten or abridge)
- kupere verb (cut short an animal's tail)
Portuguese
4 entries- derrabar verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- encurtar verb (shorten or abridge)
- limitar verb (limit or restrict)
- restringir verb (limit or restrict)
Russian
4 entries- обре́зать verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- обреза́ть verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- ограни́чивать verb (limit or restrict)
- ограни́чить verb (limit or restrict)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- giorraich verb (shorten or abridge)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ograničiti verb (limit or restrict)
- skratiti verb (shorten or abridge)
- smanjiti verb (shorten or abridge)
- stegnuti verb (limit or restrict)
Sicilian
4 entries- accurzari verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- accurzari verb (shorten or abridge)
- limitari verb (limit or restrict)
- strìnciri verb (limit or restrict)
Spanish
4 entries- acortar verb (cut short an animal's tail)
- acortar verb (shorten or abridge)
- limitar verb (limit or restrict)
- truncar verb (shorten or abridge)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
Source: tatoeba (2654379)
On July 16, 1439, King Henry VI banned kissing in England to curtail the spread of the plague.
Source: tatoeba (8624992)
The aim is to curtail dependence on countries such as Taiwan for chips.
Source: tatoeba (9763289)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.