'Shortened' definitions:

Definition of 'shortened'

From: WordNet
adjective
Cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use" [syn: sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened]
adjective
Cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated, shortened, truncated]
adjective
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" [syn: telescoped, shortened]
adjective
With parts removed; "the drastically cut film" [syn: cut, shortened]

Definition of 'Shortened'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. [1913 Webster]
  • Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. [1913 Webster]
  • To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
  • To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'shortened'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Shortened'