Dictionary Entry
shorten
shorten is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
- 4adjective
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
- 5intransitive verb
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
- 6verb
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
"bowdlerize a novel"
- 7verb
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
"The manuscript must be shortened"
- 8verb
become short or shorter
"In winter, the days shorten"
- 9verb
make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
"He shortened his trip due to illness"
- 10verb
make short or shorter
"shorten the skirt"
"shorten the rope by a few inches"
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