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Contract :: Contract (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action..

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends..

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

Biscuit :: Biscuit (n.) A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card..

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree..

Foreshortening :: Foreshortening (n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

Aphetize :: Aphetize (v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.

Cut-out :: Cut-out (n.) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit..

Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced..

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..

Coronary :: Coronary (n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack..

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

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