decurtate adjective 1verb 1forms 5 adjective1 •(rare) Shortened, curtailed.Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets. — 1859 verb1 •(no longer used, rare) To cut short. formsdecurtated · decurtating · decurtates · more decurtate · most decurtate