Found 3 items, similar to Shortened.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: shorten memendekkan, memperpendek
English → English (WordNet) Definition: shortened shortened adj 1: cut short; “a sawed-off shotgun”; “a sawed-off broomstick”; “the shortened rope was easier to use” [syn: sawed-off, sawn-off] 2: cut short in duration; “the abbreviated speech”; “a curtailed visit”; “her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking”; “an unsatisfactory truncated conversation” [syn: abbreviated, truncated] 3: 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] 4: with parts removed; “the drastically cut film” [syn: cut]
English → English (gcide) Definition: 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. [1913 Webster] 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]