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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   shorten

   • IPA[ˈSHôrtn]

   美式

   • v.
     make or become shorter；reduce the amount of (sail) exposed to the wind.

   • 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 around mid-September, days shorten and temperatures dip 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
   • ▪ reduce the amount of (sail) exposed to the wind.
   • ▪ (with reference to gambling odds) make or become shorter; decrease the odds had shortened to 14-1
   • ▪ make (a vowel or syllable) short.
3. • 更多解釋

   shorten

   • IPA[ˈʃɔːt(ə)n]

   英式

   • v.
     make or become shorter: he shortened his stride patients whose waiting time had been shortened

   Oxford Dictionary