Associations to the word «Shortened»
Noun
- Smoking
- Labor
- Suffix
- Velocity
- Diarrhea
- Warmer
- Tendency
- Canal
- Period
- Faster
- Infection
- Onset
- Bill
- Replication
- Relaxation
- Opposition
- Tendon
- Nickname
- Shelf
- Voyage
- Drag
- Chunk
- Censor
- Speed
- Mosquito
- Stress
- Pitch
- Candidacy
- Suffering
- Joint
- Suspense
- Parole
- Loop
- Expressway
- Remove
- Wavelength
- Complication
- Efficiency
- Spine
- Strain
- Chromosome
- Tract
- Sentence
- Plenty
- Zinc
- Travelling
- Hour
- Closer
- Name
- Time
- Allies
- Trump
- Fold
- Life
- Wage
- Rotation
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
SHORTEN, verb. (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
SHORTEN, verb. (intransitive) To become shorter.
SHORTEN, verb. (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
SHORTEN, verb. (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
SHORTEN, verb. (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
SHORTEN, verb. (nautical) (transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
SHORTEN, verb. (nautical) (transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
Dictionary definition
SHORTEN, verb. Make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness".
SHORTEN, verb. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".
SHORTEN, verb. Make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches".
SHORTEN, verb. Become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten".
SHORTEN, verb. Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.