shorten

1. a. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. a. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. Source: opted

4. a. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. Source: opted

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

6. v. make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration Source: wordnet

7. v. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements Source: wordnet

8. v. make short or shorter Source: wordnet

9. v. become short or shorter Source: wordnet

10. v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate Source: wordnet

11. 1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. 2. 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. Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. Dryden. 3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears. Dryden. 4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it. -- To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in. To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold. Source: webster

12. To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northernlatitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold. Source: adambom

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