Word Meanings - UNDERSHOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shoot short of (a mark).

• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten
• Short-winded
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
• Shortening
  of Shorten
• Shortwing
  Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
• Short-wited
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• SHORTCIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• Shorthand
  A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
• SHORTDATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• Short-handed
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.

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