obtruncated

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A form of obtruncate — To truncate or lop the head off, to decapitate (also figurative).

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of obtruncate

    "——To die, is the great debt and tribute due unto nature: tombs and monuments, which should perpetuate our memories, pay it themselves; and the proudest pyramid of them all, which wealth and science have erected, has lost its apex, and stands obtruncated in the traveller's horizon."

    1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Chicago

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