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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb shorten has 5 senses
- shorten(v = verb.change) - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness" is one way to bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down
- shorten(v = verb.change) abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
- shorten(v = verb.change) - make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches" is one way to alter, change, modify
- shorten(v = verb.change) - become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten" is one way to decrease, diminish, fall, lessen
- shorten(v = verb.change) bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" is one way to abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten
Antonym: lengthen
Derived form noun shortener1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun shortener1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun shortener1, noun shortening2
Sample sentence:
They shorten their hair
Antonym: lengthen
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Sample sentence:
They won't shorten the story
CIDE DICTIONARY
- To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. [1913 Webster]
- To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc. [1913 Webster]"Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain." [1913 Webster]
- To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. [1913 Webster]"Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears." [1913 Webster]
- To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. [1913 Webster]
shorten, v. i.
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shorten, v.
1 intr. & tr. become or make shorter or short; curtail.
2 tr. Naut. reduce the amount of (sail spread).
3 intr. & tr. (with reference to gambling odds, prices, etc.) become or make shorter; decrease.
1 intr. & tr. become or make shorter or short; curtail.
2 tr. Naut. reduce the amount of (sail spread).
3 intr. & tr. (with reference to gambling odds, prices, etc.) become or make shorter; decrease.
THESAURUS
shorten
abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abstract, bate, be telegraphic, bob, bobtail, boil down, brief, capsule, capsulize, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, derogate, detract, digest, diminish, disparage, dock, downgrade, drain, draw, draw in, draw together, eat away, elide, epitomize, erode, excerpt, extract, file away, foreshorten, hem, impair, knit, leach, lessen, lower, minify, minimize, mow, narrow, nip, nutshell, outline, pare, poll, pollard, prune, pucker, pucker up, purify, purse, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, roll back, rub away, scale down, shave, shear, shrink, simplify, sketch, sketch out, slash, snub, solidify, step down, strangle, strangulate, stunt, subduct, subtract, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take away, take from, take in, telescope, thin, thin out, trim, truncate, tune down, waste no words, wear away, weed, withdraw, wrinkleROGET THESAURUS
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Decrease
VB decrease, diminish, lessen, abridge, shrink, drop off, fall off, tail off, fall away, waste, wear, wane, ebb, decline, descend, subside, melt away, die away, retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble, bate, abate, dequantitate, discount, depreciate, extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away, mitigate, dwarf, throw into the shade, reduce, shorten, subtract.Contraction
VB become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.Shortness
VB be short, render short, shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce, compress, epitomize, retrench, cut short, obtruncate, scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew, cut down, pare down, clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop, snub, truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of, foreshorten (in drawing).
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