shortened

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}, {shortened}]
    2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her
       shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an
       unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: {abbreviated},
       {shortened}, {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},
       {shortened}]
    4: with parts removed; "the drastically cut film" [syn: {cut},
       {shortened}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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