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Shortened

adjective

1.

Cut short. Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off. "A sawed-off broomstick" , "The shortened rope was easier to use"

2.

Cut short in duration. Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated. "Her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking" , "An unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

3.

Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another. Synonym: telescoped. "Years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"

4.

With parts removed. Synonym: cut.

Shorten

verb

(past & past part. shortened; pres. part. shortening)

1.

Make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration.

2.

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce.

3.

Make short or shorter. "Shorten the rope by a few inches"

4.

Become short or shorter.

5.

Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate.

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"Shortened" Quotes from Famous Books

... that under no circumstances would she again consent to live with the other. The daughter of course knew that the mother would receive her again should she ask to be received. But in such case she must go back with shortened pinions and blunted beak. Her sojourn with Mrs. Green was to last for one month, and at the end of that time she must seek for a home. If she put John Morton's legacy out to interest, she would now be mistress of a small income;—but she understood money well enough to know ...

— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

... which was never protected by the accent, were peculiarly likely to lose their full value. As a result, in conversational Latin certain final consonants tended to drop away, and probably the long vowel following a short one was regularly shortened when the accent fell on the short syllable, or on the syllable which followed the long one. Some scholars go so far as to maintain that in course of time all distinction in quantity in the unaccented vowels was lost in popular Latin. Sometimes the influence of ...

— The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature • Frank Frost Abbott

... Silver Age, inferior to the golden, but better than that of brass. Jupiter shortened the spring, and divided the year into seasons. Then, first, men had to endure the extremes of heat and cold, and houses became necessary. Caves were the first dwellings, and leafy coverts of the woods, and huts woven of twigs. Crops would no longer grow without planting. The farmer was obliged to ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... him comin' hame frae the college wi' a hantle o' medals an' prizes?" said Rob Adair, breaking in as if he felt that he must contribute his share to the memories which shortened, if they did not cheer, their road. "His faither was rael prood o' him, though it wasna his way to say muckle. But his mither could talk aboot naething else, an' carriet his picture aboot wi' her a' ower the pairish in her wee black retical basket. Fegs, a gipsy wife gat a saxpence ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... 1993. Unemployment climbed to an estimated 6.6 million or about 7% of the work force by yearend 1994. Floundering Russian firms have already had to put another 4.8 million workers on involuntary, unpaid leave or shortened workweeks. Government fears of large-scale unemployment continued to hamper industrial restructuring efforts. According to official Russian data, real per capita income was up nearly 18% in 1994 compared with 1993, in part because many Russians are working ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

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