Cut Short Meaning

Example : Make shorter by cutting  The party was cut short because everything was getting broken.2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”[1], The Guardian:  The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.