shortened

Meaning of shortened

verb

To make shorter; to abbreviate.
To become shorter.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
to shorten an allowance of food
To take in the slack of (a rope).
To reduce (sail) by taking it in.

Information about shortened

It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of shortened

short-ened

It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
shortened is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

shortened synonyms

Meaning abbreviated:

abbreviated, truncated

Meaning telescoped:

Meaning cut:

shortened antonyms

Meaning :

extend, lengthen

Anagrams of shortened

dethrones, threnodes

Words that rhyme with shortened

ened, Damascened, damascened, fiercened, piecened, scened, bemaddened, boldened, broadened, burdened, casehardened, deadened, disburdened, disemburdened, emboldened, gardened, gladdened, goldened, hardened, hoidened, hoydened, imboldened, ladened, leadened, loadened, loudened, maddened, mildened, oldened, outreddened, overburdened, prehardened, rebroadened, reddened, rehardened, rewidened, saddened, semihardened, soddened, superhardened, unbroadened, unburdened, undeadened, undisburdened, ungardened, ungladdened, unhardened, unimboldened, unmaddened, unsaddened

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