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shortens

VERB

diminish, decrease

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abbreviate compress curtail cut cut back cut down lessen minimize reduce shrink slash trim

STRONG

abridge bob chop clip condense contract dock edit elide excerpt lop retrench snip

WEAK

blue pencil boil down cut to the bone make a long story short put in a nutshell

Antonyms

STRONGEST

develop enlarge expand extend grow increase lengthen raise strengthen stretch

WEAK

amplify elongate

Example Sentences

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With no room in the kennels just before Christmas, Peggy went home to stay with the Shortens and their other two working sheepdogs.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2021

Where the eagle's scream Shortens the hunter's dream.

From Soldier Songs and Love Songs by Laidlaw, A. H. (Alexander Hamilton)

Ere the first blaze of dazzling sunshine Shortens your lives a thousand years.—Chorus.

From The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Once she pointed out to me at the end of her dictation-book a publisher's colophon of a sundial with the word Finis above it, and, underneath, the words "Every Hour Shortens Life."

From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Hope, with a goodly prospect, feeds your eye; Shows, from a rising ground, possession nigh; Shortens the distance, or o'erlooks it quite; So easy 'tis to travel with the sight.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir