truncate
verb (used with object)
to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short.
had truncated
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past perfectof truncate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Tomic’s would-be role models, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, also had truncated tournament debuts, though not for their lack of trying.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2017
The attrition of subsequent matter had truncated the great egg-shaped rock, and worn its sides into a striated face, whose scratches still indicated the line of water-flow.”
From The Ocean and its Wonders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
