"Shorten" is a word in ENGLISH
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as,
to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in
northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by
cold.
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.
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Read the complete definitionAbbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Read the complete definitionTo make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
Read the complete definitionShortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
Read the complete definitionThe act of shortening, or reducing.
Read the complete definitionShortened conventional expressions, employed as substitutes for names, phrases, dates, and the like, for the saving of space, of time …
Read the complete definitionOne who abbreviates or shortens.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
Read the complete definitionTo shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a …
Read the complete definitionTo make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power …
Read the complete definitionAn epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
Read the complete definitionThe shortening ol the time for tbe vesting in possession of an expectant interest
Read the complete definitionTo; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to a-. See Ad-.
Read the complete definitionShortened forms of Alcoholate.
Read the complete definitionáma - (Sp. ama) Housewife, mistress, landlady, proprietress. (cf. agálon, tagíya). Also shortened from the Sp. "ama de leche”—wet-nurse.
Read the complete definitionamíg - Chum, pal, friend, shortened from amígo and used very familiarly and often also ironically or sarcastically. Si amíg …
Read the complete definition-ánay - A suffix denoting reciprocity. Nagahigugmaánay silá. They love each other. Nagsondánay silá. They followed one another. At times …
Read the complete definitionA prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English …
Read the complete definitionanúus n soot. anak sa a very dark-complexioned person. v [A23; b(1)] give o? soot. Ug muanúus ang sugà, pagamyi …
Read the complete definitionShortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.
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