Usually means: Cutting off, usually with violence.
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  4. obtruncation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  6. obtruncation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. obtruncation: FreeDictionary.org
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  9. Obtruncation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (formal) The act of lopping or cutting off.

Similar:
detruncation, truncation, curtailing, cropping, abscision, abscission, cutter-off, succision, topping, recision, more...

Opposite:
permissiveness, leniency, flexibility, accommodation



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Similar:
detruncation, truncation, curtailing, cropping, abscision, abscission, cutter-off, succision, topping, recision, more...

Opposite:
permissiveness, leniency, flexibility, accommodation



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