1) Abridge 2) Cutoff 3) Lop 4) Reduce 5) Shorten 1) Curtail 2) Cut short 3) Make shorter by cutting off 4) Replace a corner by a plane 5) Short 6) Shorten by cutting 7) Shorten by cutting off a part 8) Truncated 
terminating abruptly, as if cut off square 
cut off squarely; with an abruptly transverse end.
blunt ended
Having the end squared off or even. 
• (v. t.) To cut off; to lop; to maim. • (a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
As if cut off square at the apex.
Ending abruptly: squared off.
having the end squared off. 
As if cut cleanly across, at right angles to the midrib.
To cut off or to appear to have been cut off. ... (09 Oct 1997) ... 
(trung´kāt) having the end cut squarely off.
To drop characters at the end of a data field because the field being converted or keyed is too long to fix in the record positions in which it must be stored.
Having the edge vertical and straight.
Squared or leveled off at the base or tip.
Cut straight across.
Appearing as if cut off at the end; the end nearly or quite straight across.
Ending abruptly: squared off.
blunt ended
terminating abruptly, as if cut off square
adjective terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; `a truncate leaf`; `truncated volcanic mountains`; `a truncated pyramid`
ending abruptly as though cut off
A method of formatting data by removing characters at the end of the data that do not conform to the format desired.
[SAT terms] make shorter as if by cutting off