Word Meanings - SHORTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

• Short-circuited
  of Short-circuit
• SHORTWINDED
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.
• Short-circuiting
  of Short-circuit
• Shortness
  The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness
• SHORTWITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• Short-circuit
  To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
• Shortsighted
  Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
• Shortclothes
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• Short-spoken
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten

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