shortened

shortened
adjective
1. cut short (Freq. 1)
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a sawed-off shotgun

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a sawed-off broomstick

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the shortened rope was easier to use

• Syn: ↑sawed-off, ↑sawn-off
• Similar to: ↑short
2. cut short in duration
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the abbreviated speech

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her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking

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an unsatisfactory truncated conversation

• Syn: ↑abbreviated, ↑truncated
• Similar to: ↑short
3. with parts removed
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the drastically cut film

• Syn: ↑cut
• Similar to: ↑abridged
4. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
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a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars

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years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream

• Syn: ↑telescoped
• Similar to: ↑short

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adj
abridged, condensed, summarized, abbreviated, abstracted

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shortened adj

“I've” is the shortened form of “I have.”

I heard a shortened version of the song on the radio.

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Main Entry: ↑shorten

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  • shortened imperative — shortened command, abbreviated command …   English contemporary dictionary

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