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shortened
(encz) | shortened,zkrácený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
shortened
(wn) | shortened
adj 1: cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off
broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use" [syn:
sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened]
2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her
shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an
unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated,
shortened, truncated]
3: shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within
another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that
anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed
telescoped like time in a dream" [syn: telescoped,
shortened]
4: with parts removed; "the drastically cut film" [syn: cut,
shortened] |
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Shortened
(gcide) | Shorten \Short"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ?; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as,
to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of
calamity.
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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.
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am
shortened by my chain. --Dryden.
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3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
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Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
--Dryden.
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4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard,
pot liquor, or the like.
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To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.
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Unshortened
(gcide) | Unshortened \Unshortened\
See shortened. |
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