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Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like..

Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights..

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

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

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

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..

Tuck :: Tuck (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves..

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

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.

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Detuncate :: Detuncate (v. t.) To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

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..

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

Shortener :: Shortener (n.) One who, or that which, shortens..

Curtail :: Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce..

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

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

Shortening :: Shortening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorte.

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

O :: O' (prep.) A shortened form of of or on.

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