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- [shawr-tn]
- /ˈʃɔr tn/
- /ˈʃɔː.tən/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [shawr-tn]
- /ˈʃɔr tn/
Definitions of shorten word
- verb with object shorten to make short or shorter. 1
- verb with object shorten to reduce, decrease, take in, etc.: to shorten sail. 1
- verb with object shorten to make (pastry, bread, etc.) short, as with butter or other fat. 1
- verb with object shorten Sports. choke (def 8). 1
- verb without object shorten to become short or shorter. 1
- verb without object shorten (of odds) to decrease. 1
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Origin of shorten
First appearance:
before 1505 One of the 26% oldest English words
First recorded in 1505-15; short + -en1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Shorten
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
shorten popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
shorten usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for shorten
verb shorten
- abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
- abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- bant — string
- banted — to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.
Antonyms for shorten
verb shorten
- aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- arch — An arch is a structure that is curved at the top and is supported on either side by a pillar, post, or wall.
- arcing — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.
- arcked — a simple past tense and past participle of arc.
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