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・ short-jointed
・ short-lived
・ short-spoken
・ short-waisted
・ short-winded
・ short-wited
・ shortage
・ shortcake
・ shortclothes
・ shortcoming
shorten
・ shortener
・ shortening
・ shorthand
・ shorthead
・ shorthorn
・ shortly
・ shortness
・ shortsighted
・ shortstop


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shorten : 英英辞書
Short"en
(), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Shortened ; p. pr. & vb. n.Shortening.] [See Short, a.]
1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
2. 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.
Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
Dryden.
3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
Dryden.
4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it.
To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.

Short"en
v. i.To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.



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