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Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity..

Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights..

Coronary :: Coronary (n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack..

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Aphetize :: Aphetize (v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.

Shortcake :: Shortcake (n.) An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked..

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road..

Detuncate :: Detuncate (v. t.) To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced..

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

Pullman Car :: Pullman car () A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman..

Pa :: Pa (n.) A shortened form of Papa.

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..

Curtail :: Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce..

Shortener :: Shortener (n.) One who, or that which, shortens..

O :: O' (prep.) A shortened form of of or on.

Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait..

Tuck :: Tuck (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves..

Unfalcated :: Unfalcated (a.) Having no deductions; not curtailed, or shortened; undiminished..

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