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1. Oxford Dictionary

   shorten

   • IPA[ˈʃɔːt(ə)n]

   英式

   • v.
     make or become shorter；(with reference to gambling odds) make or become shorter; decrease

   • verb: shorten, 3rd person present: shortens, gerund or present participle: shortening, past tense: shortened, past participle: shortened

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. make or become shorter he shortened his stride patients whose waiting time had been shortened 同義詞 make shorter, abbreviate, abridge, condense, precis, ... 更多synopsize, contract, compress, reduce, lessen, shrink, decrease, diminish, cut, cut down, cut short, dock, trim, clip, crop, pare down, prune, curtail, truncate, turn up, take up, get shorter, grow shorter, grow less, contract, compress, shrink反義詞 lengthen, extend, elongate, lengthen
   • ▪ (with reference to gambling odds) make or become shorter; decrease Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan's odds from 2–1 to 7–4 the odds had shortened to 14–1
   • ▪ make (a vowel or syllable) short the preceding vowels are shortened
   • 2. reduce the amount of (sail spread) before sail could be shortened she went on to her beam ends