Shortens is valid Scrabble Word

Is shortens a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for SHORTENS 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)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make or become shorter

Words related to SHORTENS

shorten10 shortened13 shortening14

Words that contain SHORTENS

foreshortens18

How to use SHORTENS in a sentence

The space between the footprints shortens all at once.
The iron bridge, which shortens the distance by a mile and half, had not then been thrown over the Goomtee river, which flows between them.
But in the cases of the other two subjects the difference shortens the interval in varying degrees.
A poor soil not only produces poor flowers, but it materially shortens the blooming period.
One would naturally infer that the use of tobacco shortens life.
So this thing that shortens life, and is used as the most cruel of punishments in our prisons, is the thing that will destroy all the life and force of a speech.
And though it does not abolish, it at least shortens the period of female dominion.
The preservative in part replaces the alcohol and the hop extract, and shortens the brewing time.
It has been said by some that the cultivation of Rice lowers vitality, and shortens life.
Sloth, by bringing on disease, absolutely shortens life.

Because it destroys the sight, dries the body, and impairs the brain, often causes fevers and shortens life also.
Start with the shortest lengths, cutting them longer than required, as the paring necessary to fit them to the rails and posts shortens them a little.
The London air shortens and clips those beams, and yet leaves daylight the finest thing we know.
Nothing makes time pass more quickly or more shortens a journey than a thought which absorbs in itself all the faculties of the organization of him who thinks.
And, indeed, the whole endless action of refusal shortens the life we could desire to live.
Thus their intemperance shortens their lives, without pleasing their appetites.
He is often asked if to know that death seems certain makes less the chance of recovery or shortens the lessening number of the days of life yet left.
How shall we detect it? If a star approach us, it puts a greater number of waves into an inch, and shortens their length.

Similar words containing SHORTEN without suffix s

shorten10 shortened13 shortener12 shorteners13 shortening14 foreshorten17 shortenings15 foreshortens18 foreshortened20 foreshortening21 foreshortenings22

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