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BREAK SHORT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interrupt before its natural or planned end

Example:

We had to cut short our vacation

Synonyms:

break off; break short; cut short

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "break short" is one way to...):

break; interrupt (terminate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "break short"):

hang up (interrupt a telephone conversation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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