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General (29 matching dictionaries)

1. shorten: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. shorten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. shorten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. shorten: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. shorten: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. shorten: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Shorten, shorten: Wordnik [home, info]
8. shorten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. Shorten, shorten: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. shorten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. shorten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. shorten: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. shorten: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. shorten (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. shorten: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. shorten: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Shorten (file format): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Shorten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. shorten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. shorten: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. shorten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. shorten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. shorten: Free Dictionary [home, info]
24. shorten: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
25. shorten: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
26. shorten: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
27. shorten: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

28. shorten: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

29. Shorten: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
30. Shorten: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

31. Shorten, shorten: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

32. Shorten, Shorten: Gambling Glossary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (shorten) ▸ verb:  become short or shorter ("In winter, the days shorten") ▸ verb:  make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration ("He shortened his trip due to illness") ▸ verb:  make short or shorter ("Shorten the skirt") ▸ verb:  reduce in scope while retaining essential elements ("The manuscript must be shortened") ▸ verb:  edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate ▸ name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #54245) ▸ Also see shortens ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to shorten ▸ Usage examples for shorten ▸ Idioms related to shorten (New!) ▸ Words that often appear near shorten ▸ Rhymes of shorten ▸ Invented words related to shorten