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cut short
Abbreviate, stop abruptly, as in The thunderstorm cut short our picnic, or She cut her short, saying she'd already heard the story of their breakup. Shakespeare used this term to mean “put a sudden end to someone's life”: “Rather than bloody war shall cut them short” (2 Henry VI, 4:4), a less common usage today. The broader usage dates from the mid-1600s.
Example Sentences
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony was cut short when hostilities erupted and they were ordered to evacuate the kibbutz near Jerusalem.
The year abroad is a kind of homecoming for Serk, yet it’s cut short one August evening as father and daughter stroll across a beach while on vacation.
The Chrisleys weren't the only notable prisoners to have their sentences cut short by Trump this week.
To recognize that real lives, often young ones, were cut short in war.
"My heart grieves for the families of the young beloveds, whose lives were cut short in a moment by an abhorrent antisemitic murderer," he said.
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