Crossword-Solution: SHORTEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shorten | a. | To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. |
| Shorten | a. | To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc. |
| Shorten | a. | To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of. |
| Shorten | a. | To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. |
| Shorten | v. i. | To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHORTEN | anagram | HORNETS, SOTHERN, THRENOS, THRONES |
We have 56 clues for the answer “SHORTEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| make shorter than originally intended | 1 answer |
| make or become shorter | 1 answer |
| curtail lessen abridge | 1 answer |
| Take a tuck in. | 1 answer |
| Reduce in length | 1 answer |
| Make more brief | 1 answer |
| Edit for space | 1 answer |
| Decrease in length | 1 answer |
| Convert to a mini | 1 answer |
| Add butter. | 1 answer |
| Abbreviate, say | 1 answer |
| Edit down | 2 answers |
| Take up, as a hem | 2 answers |
| Hem, say | 3 answers |
| razee | 3 answers |
| syncopate | 5 answers |
| ABRIDGE PERHAPS | 6 answers |
| ETERNALISE (ant.) | 8 answers |
| Edit, in a way | 10 answers |
| Shear | 11 answers |
| truncate | 12 answers |
| Stunt | 12 answers |
| ELABORATE (ant.) | 13 answers |
| shave | 16 answers |
| Telescope | 18 answers |
| Pare | 20 answers |
| Taper | 21 answers |
| Take up | 22 answers |
| attenuate | 23 answers |
| Abbreviate | 26 answers |
| lop | 28 answers |
| Summarize | 30 answers |
| Condense | 31 answers |
| bate | 34 answers |
| Crop | 35 answers |
| AMPUTATE | 36 answers |
| Cut (down) | 37 answers |
| MAKE lean | 38 answers |
| epitomise | 38 answers |
| Curtail | 40 answers |
| Abridge | 41 answers |
| Concentrate | 42 answers |
| Cut Back | 43 answers |
| Clip ___ | 43 answers |
| Prune | 45 answers |
| Bob ___. | 48 answers |
| Dock | 48 answers |
| Dwindle | 52 answers |
| compress | 52 answers |
| Diminish | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEAME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHORTEN (5)
When I asked a few friends they suggested I should shorten the very long wires I had used between the components, and sure enough I had the greatest thrill of my life when for the first time I heard Rome on short waves on my very own home-made receiver.
The visit was of course short; and there was so much embarrassment and occupation of mind to shorten it, that Emma would not allow herself entirely to form an opinion of the lady, and on no account to give one, beyond the nothing-meaning terms of being “elegantly dressed, and very pleasing.” She did not really like her.
Circumstances favouring this course, it was desirable also to be rather reserved towards Knight, to shorten the meeting as much as possible.
Again, to shorten the tale, there in the hall before Christopher, who lay unwotting, were Jack of the Tofts and his seven sons, and the four wives of four of the same, whom they had won from the Wailful Castle, when they, with their father, put an end to the evil woman, and the great she-tyrant of the Land betwixt the Wood and the River.
Hugo: The morn is fair, the weary miles Will shorten 'neath the summer's wiles; Pomona in the orchard smiles, And in the meadow, Flora! And I have roused a chosen band For escort through the troubled land; And shaken Elspeth by the hand, And said farewell to Thora.
Quotes with SHORTEN (3)
There must be a mistake," I said. He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?
Ignoranceis not bliss. Ignorance is tragedy. Ignorance isdevastation. Ignorance creates lack. Ignorancecreates disease. Ignorance will shorten your life. Ignorance will empty your life and leave you withthe husks, nothing to account for. No, ignorance isnot bliss. Here’s another note to make: What you don’t knowwill hurt you. What you don’t know will tragicallyaffect your life. What you don’t know will leaveyour life empty. What you don’t know will leaveyou without a relation…
The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building Must Clocks be circles? Time is not a circle. Suppose the Mother of All Minutes startedright here, on the sidewalkin front of the Morning Lenape Building, and the paradeof minutes that followed--each of them, say, one inch long--headed out that way, down Bridge Street. Where would Now be? This minute? Out past the moon? Jupiter? The nearest star? Who came up with minutes, anyway? Who needs them? Name one good thing a minute's ever done…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1967–2024).