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shorten 音标拼音: [ʃ'ɔrtən] vt. 弄短,缩短,减少
vi. 缩小,变短 弄短,缩短,减少缩小,变短 shorten v 1: make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; " He shortened his trip due to illness" [ ant: { lengthen}] 2: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; " The manuscript must be shortened" [ synonym: { abridge}, { foreshorten}, { abbreviate}, { shorten}, { cut}, { contract}, { reduce}] [ ant: { dilate}, { elaborate}, { enlarge}, { expand}, { expatiate}, { exposit}, { expound}, { flesh out}, { lucubrate}] 3: make short or shorter; " shorten the skirt"; " shorten the rope by a few inches" 4: become short or shorter; " In winter, the days shorten" [ ant: { lengthen}] 5: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; " bowdlerize a novel" [ synonym: { bowdlerize}, { bowdlerise}, { expurgate}, { castrate}, { shorten}] Shorten \ Short" en\, v. i. To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold. [ 1913 Webster]
Shorten \ Short" en\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Shortened ?}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Shortening}.] [ See { Short}, a.] 1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make deficient ( as to); to deprive; -- with of. [ 1913 Webster] Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. [ 1913 Webster] { To shorten a rope} ( Naut.), to take in the slack of it. { To shorten sail} ( Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in. [ 1913 Webster] 121 Moby Thesaurus words for " shorten": abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abstract, bate, be telegraphic, bob, bobtail, boil down, brief, capsule, capsulize, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, depreciate, depress, derogate, detract, digest, diminish, disparage, dock, downgrade, drain, draw, draw in, draw together, eat away, elide, epitomize, erode, excerpt, extract, file away, foreshorten, hem, impair, knit, leach, lessen, lower, minify, minimize, mow, narrow, nip, nutshell, outline, pare, poll, pollard, prune, pucker, pucker up, purify, purse, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, roll back, rub away, scale down, shave, shear, shrink, simplify, sketch, sketch out, slash, snub, solidify, step down, strangle, strangulate, stunt, subduct, subtract, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take away, take from, take in, telescope, thin, thin out, trim, truncate, tune down, waste no words, wear away, weed, withdraw, wrinkle
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