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shortened

adjective as in bobbed

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Other reporters have since been arrested, and foreign journalists have complained about having their visas shortened.

At least 30 percent of them will serve their shortened sentence in a private prison.

The second game was shortened when disgusted fans began throwing their rented seat cushions onto the field at dusk.

Shortened in medical parlance to H. flu, it bears no relation to the viral infection influenza that strikes every winter.

The race has never been canceled, though it was shortened in 1981, when the wind chill factor dropped to 71 degrees below zero.

The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.

That this terrible tragedy shortened the life of his father is certain.

There need be no fear that with shortened hours of labor the sum total of production would fall short of human needs.

When the organist played CCC sharp, wind was admitted to the valve, which opened, and this shortened the pipe.

And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

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On this page you'll find 186 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shortened, such as: coiffed, cropped, cut, and trimmed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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