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Della Crusca :: Della Crusca () A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language..

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

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road..

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

Pa :: Pa (n.) A shortened form of Papa.

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.

Shortened / :: Shortened / (imp. & p. p.) of Shorte.

Foreshorten :: Foreshorten (v. t.) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective..

Alcohate :: Alcohate (n.) Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc..

Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary..

Apocopation :: Apocopation (n.) Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew..

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..

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..

Aphetic :: Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold..

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