shorten

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

shortens

V_ing/Gerund

shortening

V_ed/pp

shortened

1.
(transitive)To make shorter; to abbreviate.
2.
(intransitive)To become shorter.
3.
(transitive)To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
4.
(transitive)To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
5.
(transitive)To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
to shorten an allowance of food
6.
(transitive)(baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
7.
(transitive)(nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
8.
(transitive)(nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
9.
(dated, transitive)to dress (a baby) in a short (rather than long) gown

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Trái nghĩa

extend lengthen

Cùng gốc / liên quan

foreshortenovershorten preshorten reshortenshortenableshortener unshorten unshortenedshorten downshorten upshortening

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English shortnen, schortenen, equivalent to short + -en. In some senses, a continuation (in altered form) of Middle English schorten (to make short, shorten), from Old English sċortian (to become short), from Proto-Germanic *skurtōną (to shorten).