Definition:
- (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
- (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
- (v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
Compare shorten with other words:
shorten vs. shotten
shorten vs. truncated
digest vs. shorten
decrease vs. shorten
shorten vs. shortener
plication vs. shorten
foreshorten vs. shorten
shorten vs. shrink
shorten vs. syncopated
minimize vs. shorten
shorten vs. welk
foreshortening vs. shorten
apocopate vs. shorten
shorten vs. truncate
lengthen vs. shorten
lessen vs. shorten
diminish vs. shorten
reduce vs. shorten
lard vs. shorten
butter vs. shorten
pastry vs. shorten
friable vs. shorten
lower vs. shorten
firm vs. shorten
contract vs. shorten
shorten vs. shortening
quicken vs. shorten
compress vs. shorten
prune vs. shorten
hypocoristic vs. shorten
short vs. shorten
curtail vs. shorten
contraction vs. shorten
abridge vs. shorten
abbreviation vs. shorten
abbreviate vs. shorten