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shorten    音标拼音: [ʃ'ɔrtən]
vt. 弄短,缩短,减少
vi. 缩小,变短

弄短,缩短,减少缩小,变短

shorten
v 1: make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench
in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to
illness" [ant: {lengthen}]
2: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
manuscript must be shortened" [synonym: {abridge}, {foreshorten},
{abbreviate}, {shorten}, {cut}, {contract}, {reduce}] [ant:
{dilate}, {elaborate}, {enlarge}, {expand}, {expatiate},
{exposit}, {expound}, {flesh out}, {lucubrate}]
3: make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope
by a few inches"
4: become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten" [ant:
{lengthen}]
5: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel" [synonym: {bowdlerize}, {bowdlerise},
{expurgate}, {castrate}, {shorten}]

Shorten \Short"en\, 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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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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121 Moby Thesaurus words for "shorten":
abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abstract, bate, be telegraphic,
bob, bobtail, boil down, brief, capsule, capsulize, circumscribe,
clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense,
consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp, crop, curtail,
cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen,
decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, derogate, detract,
digest, diminish, disparage, dock, downgrade, drain, draw, draw in,
draw together, eat away, elide, epitomize, erode, excerpt, extract,
file away, foreshorten, hem, impair, knit, leach, lessen, lower,
minify, minimize, mow, narrow, nip, nutshell, outline, pare, poll,
pollard, prune, pucker, pucker up, purify, purse, reap, recap,
recapitulate, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, roll back,
rub away, scale down, shave, shear, shrink, simplify, sketch,
sketch out, slash, snub, solidify, step down, strangle,
strangulate, stunt, subduct, subtract, sum up, summarize,
synopsize, take away, take from, take in, telescope, thin,
thin out, trim, truncate, tune down, waste no words, wear away,
weed, withdraw, wrinkle


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