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shortened

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shortened in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. cut short in duration
    "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
    abbreviated  shortened  truncated 
  2. with parts removed
    "the drastically cut film"
    cut  shortened 
  3. cut short
    "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
    sawed-off  sawn-off  shortened 
  4. 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"
    telescoped  shortened 
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shortened in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (past of/shorten)
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