truncar

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tɾuŋˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tɾuŋˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, past participle truncat)

1. To truncate
2. to cut short

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, first-person singular preterite trunquei, past participle truncado)

1. (transitive) to truncate (shorten something as if by cutting off part of it)

• tronco

From Latin truncāre.

• IPA^(key): /tɾunˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾũŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: trun‧car

truncar (first-person singular present trunco, first-person singular preterite trunqué, past participle truncado)

1. to truncate, to cut off, to cut on one side

   El nuevo edificio de la Tate Gallery presenta una fachada truncada.

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2. to be disappointing to one's expectacions

   Sus ilusiones se vieron truncadas.

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3. to interrupt and not let further develop

   Una novela sobre unos refugiados que vieron truncadas sus vidas por la guerra.

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• “truncar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014