verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of shorten form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   with parts removed wordnet
2. 2
   shortened wordnet
3. 3
   shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another wordnet
4. 4
   cut short in duration wordnet

Synonyms

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Example

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"The fire and power outage resulted in a shortened workday at some exchanges in Manhattan's financial district."

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