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shortened::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | abbreviated, truncated |
her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cut |
shortened::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | telescoped |
Examples of shortened
shortened
In 2009, actors signed a shortened two-year pact after a year of public feuding.
From the sacbee.com
The maximum individual contract length will be shortened from six years to five.
From the economist.com
He could have had a lot more if concussion problems hadn't shortened his career.
From the denverpost.com
Also next school year, the academies'school day will be shortened by 16 minutes.
From the post-gazette.com
The game being played is a fast-paced, shortened version of traditional cricket.
From the voanews.com
Yahoo recently shortened the amount of time it keeps data derived from searches.
From the nytimes.com
It used to keep a log for two years, but now that's been shortened to 18 months.
From the techcrunch.com
It really means something when your life expectancy is shortened by 10-20 years.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Worse, 17 teams lost money, the most since the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season.
From the forbes.com
- Make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- Abridge: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- Make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- Bowdlerize: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
- (shortened) sawed-off: cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
- (shortened) abbreviated: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- Telescoped: 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"
- Shorten (SHN) is a file format used for compressing audio data. It is a form of data compression of files and is used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files (44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo PCM). ...
- Shortening is a semisolid fat used in food preparation, especially baked goods, and is so called because it promotes a "short" or crumbly texture (as in shortbread). Shortening is fat or lard from an animal or vegetable. ...
