• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Truncate
truncate, truncating, truncated 1. To shorten something by cutting off or removing a part; to cut short. 2. To make something shorter or briefer, especially by removing the end of it: 'Television coverage of the soccer match was truncated by a technical fault.' 3. Not pointed; a description of a leaf that has a blunt end, so that it looks as if a...