truncate
adjective
1. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
- a truncate leaf
- truncated volcanic mountains
- a truncated pyramid
verb
1. replace a corner by a plane
Definition categories: possession, exchange, interchange, replace, substitute
2. approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
- truncate a series
Definition categories: cognition, approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge
3. make shorter as if by cutting off
- truncate a word
- Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains