Definitions for shorten
  • Shorten (a.) - To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
  • Shorten (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.
  • Shorten (a.) - To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
  • Shorten (a.) - To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
  • Shorten (v. i.) - To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
  • Shortened - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Shortener (n.) - One who, or that which, shortens.
  • Shorteners - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Shortening (n.) - The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
  • Shortening (n.) - That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
  • Shortening (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Shorten
  • Shortenings - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Shortens - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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