Shortened

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shortened
       adj 1: cut short; "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick";
              "the shortened rope was easier to use" [syn: {sawed-off},
               {sawn-off}]
       2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a
          curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the


          result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated
          conversation" [syn: {abbreviated}, {truncated}]
       3: shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one
          within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle
          that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that
          seemed telescoped like time in a dream" [syn: {telescoped}]
       4: with parts removed; "the drastically cut film" [syn: {cut}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "shortened":
     Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed,
     brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact,
     compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp,
     cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided,
     elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped,
     pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved,
     sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut,
     snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse,
     tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated