shorten

Significat (Anglès)

1. (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
2. (intransitive) To become shorter.
3. (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
4. (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
5. (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
6. (transitive) To make crumbly.
7. (transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
8. (transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.

Sinònims

abridge

abbreviate

reduce

curtail

contract

shrink

cut

cut short

diminish

lessen

decrease

cut down

truncate

foreshorten

cut off

shave

summarize

condense

compress

draw in

castrate

economize

tuck

retrench

lower

make smaller

retract

confine

take summary action

epitomize

expurgate

stub

bowdlerize

roll up

recapitulate

behead

amortize

trim

mow

make brief

cleave

pull up

pull in

make small

bowdlerise

prune

get shorter

limit

make short

decapitate

restrict

abstract

be concise

cut out

mitigate

prune out

shear

short

sever

degrade

boil down

slash

take a short cut

be amputated

make a precis of

move closer

cease burning

abate

grow short

amortise

amputate

attenuate

bound

break

burn out

cheat

circumscribe

clip

close

contact

crop

curl up

cut back

cut up

damage

decline

detruncate

digest

draw back

ease

economise

extenuate

fall

garble

harden

huddle

interrupt

lambaste

maim

mangle

minimize

moderate

mollify

narrow

outline

put down

qualify

recede

reef

retreat

save

scale down

shortening

shrivel

snap

spend

squat

stint

stump

sum up

tear up

tense

tuck up

wane

withdraw

become smaller

cuddle up

make an abstract of

make shorter

move back

Traduccions

raccourcir

verkürzen

abréger

acortar

kürzen

inkorten

vermindern

abkürzen

écourter

bekorten

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈʃɔːtən/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: shortnen

Heretat de anglès mitjà: schorten

Heretat de anglès antic: sċortian

In summary

From Middle English shortnen, schortenen, equivalent to short + -en (verbal suffix). In some senses, a continuation (in altered form) of Middle English schorten (“to make short, shorten”), from Old English sċortian (“to become short”), from Proto-Germanic *skurtōną (“to shorten”).