shorten

中文： 弄短、缩短

1. To make shorter; to abbreviate. (transitive)
2. To become shorter. (intransitive)
3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of). (transitive)
4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc. (transitive)
5. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen. (transitive) · to shorten an allowance of food
6. To make crumbly. (transitive)
7. To take in the slack of (a rope). (transitive)
8. To reduce (sail) by taking it in. (transitive)

He/she/it shortens · 过去式 shortened · 过去分词 shortened · -ing形式 shortening