Betail

/bɪˈteɪl/ verb

To limit or restrict; to cut off or deprive of something.

From prefix 'be-' + 'tail' (from Old French 'tailler,' to cut). Originally meaning to cut off, it came to mean to curtail or limit rights and privileges.

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