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cut short

 
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cut
part of speech: phrase
definition: to cause (something) to end sooner than planned or expected.
We had to cut short our conversation when my friend's bus arrived.The hurricane cut their vacation short.She was running out of time and had to cut her lecture short.The program I was listening to got cut short by the special announcement.