1. shorten(v = verb.change) Array - 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
Antonym: lengthen
Derived form noun shortener1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
2. 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
Derived form noun shortener1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
3. shorten(v = verb.change) Array - make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived forms noun shortener1, noun shortening2
Sample sentences:
They shorten their hair
4. shorten(v = verb.change) Array - become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
is one way to decrease, diminish, fall, lessen
Antonym: lengthen
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
5. 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
Sample sentences:
They won't shorten the story
1. 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]
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. [1913 Webster]
"Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain." [1913 Webster]
3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. [1913 Webster]
"Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears." [1913 Webster]
4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. [1913 Webster]
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold. [1913 Webster]
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.
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.
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.
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).