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Abridgment :: Abridgment (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation..

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

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..

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..

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..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

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

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

Short :: Short (v. t.) To shorten.

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

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

Foreshorten :: Foreshorten (v. t.) Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.

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..

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..

Pullman Car :: Pullman car () A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman..

Dock :: Dock (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages..

Esquire :: Esquire (n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire..

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

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

Shorten :: Shorten (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..

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