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shortened Definition

• (s) cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
• (s) cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
• (s) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
• (s) with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"

shortened Synonyms

• abbreviated
• cut
• sawed-off
• sawn-off
• shortened
• telescoped
• truncated