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shorten

English

  1. 🔊 become short or shorter
    “In winter, the days shorten”
  2. 🔊 make shorter than originally intended
    “He shortened his trip due to illness”
  3. 🔊 make short or shorter
    “shorten the skirt”
  4. 🔊 reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
    “The manuscript must be shortened”
  5. 🔊 edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
    “bowdlerize a novel”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 acortar to shorten
  2. 🔊 amainar to shorten, to take in
  3. 🔊 agolar to shorten, to take in the sails

Similar words

bowdlerize bowdlerise expurgate castrate abridge foreshorten abbreviate cut contract reduce abate abbreviate abrade abridge abstract bate be telegraphic bob bobtail boil down brief capsule capsulize circumscribe