cut short

Verb

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
  • My speech was cut short
    
  • Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries
    

• make shorter as if by cutting off
  • truncate a word
    
  • Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains
    

• cause to end earlier than intended
  • The spontaneous applause cut the singer short
    

• interrupt before its natural or planned end
  • We had to cut short our vacation
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  clip , curtail , truncate , break short , break off