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Shortened Common

Shortened has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

simple past tense and past participle of shorten

"The teacher shortened the essay assignment to just three paragraphs instead of five."

Adjective
1

cut short

"a sawed-off shotgun"

"a sawed-off broomstick"

"the shortened rope was easier to use"

2

cut short in duration

"the abbreviated speech"

"her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"

"an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

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"

4

with parts removed

"the drastically cut film"

Example Sentences
"a sawed-off shotgun" adjective
"a sawed-off broomstick" adjective
"the shortened rope was easier to use" adjective
"the abbreviated speech" adjective
"her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking" adjective
"an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" adjective
"a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars" adjective
"years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" adjective
"the drastically cut film" adjective
See Also
platypelloid sawn off shotgun abridged abridgedly cutty in short cuttie unshortened
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
ned sned woned paned tuned coned faned acned mined waned vaned zoned laned pwned maned tined toned lined boned fined
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