detruncate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dētruncātus, perfect passive participle of dētruncō (“to cut off”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + truncō (“to maim, shorten, cut off”).

detruncate (third-person singular simple present detruncates, present participle detruncating, simple past and past participle detruncated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To truncate (shorten by cutting, or lop off)

• • detruncation
  • truncate
  • trunk

• “detruncate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• utteranced