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Contract :: Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To contract; to shorten.

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

Apocopated :: Apocopated (a.) Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form..

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

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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