Definition of shorten

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

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Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.
Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.
Foreshortening :: Foreshortening (n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
Contract :: Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
Short :: Short (v. t.) To shorten.
Shortcake :: Shortcake (n.) An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked..
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.
Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..
Aphetize :: Aphetize (v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.
Roll :: Roll (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself..
O :: O' (prep.) A shortened form of of or on.
Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends..
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..
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..
Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Pullman Car :: Pullman car () A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman..
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..
Shortened / :: Shortened / (imp. & p. p.) of Shorte.
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