The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CLIPPED , but the solution may also be TRUNCATED which is one of the most recent solution (2014 in LA Times).
Shortened crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CLIPPED | 22 % | 7 |
| SAWNOFF | 11 % | 7 |
| TRUNCATED | 11 % | 9 |
| SAWEDOFF | 11 % | 8 |
| TRIMMED | 11 % | 7 |
| CUTOFF | 11 % | 6 |
| PARED | 11 % | 5 |
| BOILEDDOWN | 11 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shortened
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- abbreviated
- abridged
- cut
- sawed-off
- short
- telescoped
- truncated
- accelerated
- chopped
- compressed
- condensed
- curtailed
Crossword Answer definitions
CLIPPED verb- To grip tightly.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To hug, embrace.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To strike with the hand.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- (Of a camera, character model, etc.) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To grab or take stealthily
- Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
- (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
- Circumcised.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CLIPPED
More clues leading to the result SAWNOFF
- Truncated, as a modified shotgun barrel has been
- Cut shorter
- Shortened, as a board
- Shortened
- Short, like a shotgun (Var.)
- Pruned, in a way
More clues leading to the result TRUNCATED
More clues leading to the result SAWEDOFF
More clues leading to the result TRIMMED
- Bedecked
- Like a Yuletide tree
- Decorated
- Did barbering work
- Cut away the fat
- Cut back, or added to
- Pruned.
- Defeated: Colloq.
- Clipped.
- Adjusted sails
More clues leading to the result CUTOFF
- Isolated or insulated
- Interrupt
- Swerve right in front of
- Shortened
- Discontinued
- Truncate
- Disinherit
- Road that shortens the distance.
- Interrupt.
- Lop
More clues leading to the result PARED
- Trimmed
- Peeled potatoes
- Shortened
- Skinned
- Whittled (down)
- Whittled down
- Decreased gradually, with "down"
- Gradually trimmed (down)
- Removed rind
- Cut back, as expenses