Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb truncate

3 senses of truncate

Sense 1
truncate -- (replace a corner by a plane)
       => substitute, replace, interchange, exchange -- (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning")

Sense 2
truncate -- (approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series")
       => estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge -- (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds")

Sense 3
truncate, cut short -- (make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains")
       => shorten -- (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness")

Antonyms of adj truncate

1 sense of truncate

Sense 1
truncate, truncated -- (terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid")

INDIRECT (VIA short) -> long -- (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long")

Similarity of adj truncate

1 sense of truncate

Sense 1
truncate, truncated -- (terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid")
       => short (vs. long) -- ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss")