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shorteningverbpresent participle 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 abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, cutting back, docking, eliding, syncopating, truncating abstracting, digesting, encapsulating, epitomizing, recapitulating, summarizing, summing upabating, compressing, constricting, contracting, cutting, cutting down, paring, pruning, trimmingdecreasing, de-escalating, deflating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, moderating, modifying, reducing, retrenching, shrinking, slashing, subtracting (from), tapering elongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting enlarging, expanding, supplementingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, dilating, escalating, heightening, increasing, maximizing, pumping up, raisingblowing up, distending, inflating, swelling in 1538 |