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Shorten :: Shorten (v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold..

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..

Sheepshank :: Sheepshank (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Epitomize :: Epitomize (v. t.) To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin..

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

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

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

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

Unabridged :: Unabridged (a.) Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole..

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..

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

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..

Systole :: Systole (n.) The shortening of the long syllable.

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