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Shortening

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying. US, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    act of decreasing in length wordnet
  3. 3
    verbal noun of shorten: the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length. countable, form-of, noun-from-verb, uncountable
  4. 4
    fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of shorten form-of, gerund, participle, present

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