Shortened is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHORTENED in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHORTEN, 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)
ADJECTIVE:
• cut short
• cut short in duration
• shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
• with parts removed
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make or become shorter

Words related to SHORTENED

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How to use SHORTENED in a sentence

• After that extinction has taken place, the life of man will be shortened, till it is only a period of five years.
• I shortened my oar, and as he made a grab for the stern I suddenly lunged forward with all the force I could command.
• There was usually a school attached to every convent, and manual labor was shortened in favor of students.
• Then there was a lull from half past ten to half past eleven, shortened sometimes on baking days, when the Peter-bird had his lessons.
• His lordship insisted upon the stages being shortened.
• Tom shortened the reins, and tightened his grasp round the whip.
• I would have hated the yellow fogs had they not sometimes shortened the hours of my bondage.
• At sundown, they shortened sail considerably, only leaving enough canvas up to keep the boat ahead of the sea.
• The mountain peaks to the northward became obscured as by thin smoke, the afternoon shortened with alarming swiftness.
• All hands were called in consequence, and sail was shortened.
• How he ate and drank and slept! The days shortened, and the hoar frosts in the early morning made the fence look a thing in silver-work strung through the woods.
• The sun of the now shortened day dipped below the far-off western horizon.
• Her breath shortened with the thought of it, as with a sudden plunge into water.
• The engagement last named was shortened by his call to commence the mission among the Nestorians.
• Bobby, in addition to his Cross, had incurred a cracked crown and a permanently shortened leg.
• He had shortened sail, and said he was not afraid of the weather.
• As the days shortened, he would prolong their walk until the shops and factories discharged their employees upon the streets.
• The ship sailed wonderfully well and swiftly, even under the shortened canvas, and Bertric was happy as he steered her.
• Such is a shortened account of the preparatory stages of the ceremonies through which Myles Falworth passed.
• Sentences were shortened, punishments were mitigated, the death penalty was abolished for almost all crimes except murder.
• It was only on seeing no workers in the fields that I remembered it was Sunday, and feared intensely that the pious fugitives might have shortened their flight.
• He reached it, notwithstanding he was afoot, in much less time than the drive had taken, so rapidly did he walk when out of sight, and so much was the length of the way shortened.

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