How to pronounce “shorten”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
• (intransitive) To become shorter.
• (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
• (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
• (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
• (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
• (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
• (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
• (transitive, dated) to dress (a baby) in a short (rather than long) gown

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