shorten

[short·en]

Make short or shorter

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

Verb
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

Verb
become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"

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make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"

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make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"

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a.
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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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.

a.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

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To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.

v. i.
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

Shorten

Short"en , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.] 1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. 2. 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.

Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.

3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.

4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it. -- To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.

Shorten

Short"en, v. i. To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

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Usage Examples

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.