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shortened

 
Adjective shortened has 4 senses
  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. cut, shortened - with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"
    Antonym: unabridged (indirect, via abridged)
Verb shorten has 5 senses
  1. 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
    Derived form: noun shortener1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. 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
    Derived form: noun shortener1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. shorten - make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
    --3 is one way to
    change, alter, modify
    Derived forms: noun shortener1, noun shortening2
    Sample sentence:
    They shorten their hair
  4. 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
  5. 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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