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had been curtailing

  • past perfect progressive
    of curtail.
    curtail
    verb (used with object)
    to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.

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For some months before my sickness I had been curtailing my hours of sleep.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott