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shortenedverbpast tense of shorten to make less in extent or durationwe decided to shorten the distance we had to walk home by cutting across the neighbor's lawn if Grandma has to go shopping today, you'll need to shorten your visit abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut back, docked, elided, syncopated, truncated abstracted, digested, encapsulated, epitomized, recapitulated, summarized, summed upabated, compressed, constricted, contracted, cut, cut down, pared, pruned, trimmeddecreased, de-escalated, deflated, diminished, downsized, dwindled, lessened, lowered, moderated, modified, reduced, retrenched, shrank(or shrunk), slashed, subtracted (from), tapered elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged, protracted enlarged, expanded, supplementedadded, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, ballooned, boosted, dilated, escalated, heightened, increased, maximized, pumped up, raisedblew up, distended, inflated, swelled |