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(v)
(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
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(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
(transitive) To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
Alternative form of bowdlerize. [(transitive) To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.]
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
To make shorter.
(adj)
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
(chemistry) That causes reduction.
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
(transitive) To reduce the workforce of.
(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
(transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
(transitive) To make smaller.
(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
(transitive, ergative) To make full
(transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
(transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
(ambitransitive) To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment.
(ambitransitive) To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.
(transitive) To check, restrain or control.
(transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
To be or make a bridge over something.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of minimize. [(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.]
(transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
(transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
(transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
To grip tightly.
(n)
(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
A slender wax candle.
(transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
(transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
(rare, transitive, chiefly computing) To expand from an abbreviated form; to restore to its original length.
(uncommon, transitive) To make unabbreviated, to expand something which was abbreviated.
(transitive) To cut down or reduce.
Brief, yet including all important information.
(ambitransitive) To make or become small; diminish
(nonstandard) Synonym of shorten.
A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt
(transitive) To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short.
(transitive) To abridge again.
(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
A pinching miser; a niggard.
(transitive) To receive.
(idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
(idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten
(rare) Shortened, curtailed.
(transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
(archaic, transitive) To truncate (shorten by cutting, or lop off)
(uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
Abbreviation of abridged. [Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.]
Alternative spelling of foreshorten. [To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.]
Alternative form of scrimp. [(transitive, sometimes with on) To make too small or short; to shortchange.]
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
(transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
(transitive, obsolete) To administer or govern.
(obsolete) To cut short; to truncate; to curtail.
(transitive) To cut off.
(transitive) To make more slender.
(transitive) To lengthen too little.
(transitive, idiomatic) To do (a task) quicker or easier.
(transitive) To reduce to subminiature scale.
(archaic) To lessen, to subtract something from.
(transitive) To make small or less significant.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
(informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
(ambitransitive) To make or become brief
(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
(transitive, biology, mycology) To cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint
A surname.
A surname from Irish.
A slashing action or motion:
(transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
(archaic, rare, transitive) To make thin; to attenuate.
To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
To make (someone or something) appear smaller (often in a figurative sense).
(transitive) To make less thick.