Shorten is valid Scrabble Word

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7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for SHORTEN in dictionary:

VERB:

to check or lessen the length
make or become shorter
(with reference to gambling odds) make or become shorter; decrease
make (a vowel or syllable) short
reduce the amount of (sail spread)
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

ADJECTIVE:

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make or become shorter

Words related to SHORTEN

shortened13 shortener12 shorteners13 shortening14 shortens11

Words that contain SHORTEN

shortens11 shortened13 shortener12 shorteners13 shortening14 foreshorten17 shortenings15 foreshortens18 foreshortened20 foreshortening21 foreshortenings22

How to use SHORTEN in a sentence

Strike him on the shoulder, and when you want him to trot, shorten your reins and touch him on the flank.
In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.
As September draws nigh and the days rapidly shorten, the merry hum of the thrashing machine is heard all day long.
How wonderfully this is going to aid us to obtain the decisive victory we must have, and perhaps to shorten the war.
We passed within hail of it, notwithstanding, and loud were the calls to us to shorten sail and anchor, as we came within hearing.
She is very anxious you should not shorten your visit on her account.
I have a mind anyhow to shorten some of the scenes, which must seem long, even if they are excellently acted.
When the signal to shorten sail is made, he will probably take in sail in a gradation the reverse of the preceding.
She recommended it to her daughters, therefore, by all means not to shorten their visit to Mrs.
Began to shorten sail, hauled the main-sail up, and had every gun loaded with three round shot.

These galleries serve also to shorten distances between remote parts of the external world.
By gradually changing the position of the object, he may be led to observe how some lines shorten and disappear, while others come into sight and lengthen.
My duty was to shorten the roots that were too long, and to cut away the bruised and broken ones.
You may shorten it, perhaps, but you cannot prevent it.
But often, in order to shorten the tortures of the sufferer, a finishing stroke was given him.
Wolcott was desirous to be enabled to further shorten the time for a sitting, and having some knowledge of bromine and its action, by request, Dr.
Shorten your line to two feet, or even less, bait your hook with a worm, and drop it gingerly into that gurgling crevice of water.
Lincoln, looking forward to four years more of personal leadership, was planning yet another generous offer to shorten the period of conflict.
But in so doing, I believe that it is bound to shorten this age also, on the principle that the faster you go the sooner you arrive.
Close and prolonged grazing by swine will tend to shorten the period of the life of the alfalfa.
The wealthy would have given all their money and all their goods if they could but shorten their lives to two or three hundred years even.
Tennyson submitted a motion for leave to introduce a bill to shorten the duration of parliaments.
He was not so sure that he wanted to shorten his journey, but he was ashamed of this hesitancy to face things, so he abandoned the trail and took the light for his guide.
I knew that the terrible sorrow he had caused my mother had helped to shorten her life, and my heart was hot with anger against him.
What a good thing I feel it so much, for so I shall work all the harder to shorten the time.
No corporation would shorten the working day except by reason of self-interest or legal compulsion.
I go straight eastward, hoping to shorten the way and find the road beyond the hill.
The other was a wood path through the pines, which was the one often taken by farmers living east of the town, to shorten the distance to The Corner.
To shorten his way, he turned into a cross street in the upper part of the city.
This will exceedingly shorten all discussion between us, if we are perfectly in earnest in establishing a system of good management.
A railway was built across the Isthmus of Panama to shorten the distance, and save taking the passage round the Horn.

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