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Adjective shortened has 4 senses
- sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened - cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
Antonym: long (indirect, via short)
- abbreviated, shortened, truncated - cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
Antonym: long (indirect, via short)
- telescoped, shortened - shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
Antonym: long (indirect, via short)
- cut, shortened - with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"
Antonym: unabridged (indirect, via abridged)
Verb shorten has 5 senses
- shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
--1 is one way to reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
Antonyms: lengthen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
--2 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- shorten - make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
They shorten their hair
- shorten - become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
--4 is one way to decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
Antonyms: lengthen
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
--5 is one way to abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
Sample sentence:
They won't shorten the story
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