Word
Shorten
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
short-en
Definition
- a. - To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as,
to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
- 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.
- a. - To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
- a. - To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
- v. i. - To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in
northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by
cold.
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