Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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- S: (v) shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration) "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- S: (v) abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements) "The manuscript must be shortened"
- S: (v) shorten (make short or shorter) "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- S: (v) shorten (become short or shorter) "In winter, the days shorten"
- S: (v) bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate) "bowdlerize a novel"
- S: (adj) sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened (cut short) "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
- S: (adj) abbreviated, shortened, truncated (cut short in duration) "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- S: (adj) telescoped, shortened (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"
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- W: (adj)
long [Indirect via short] (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified) "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"
- S: (adj) cut, shortened (with parts removed) "the drastically cut film"