shorten

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɔːtn̩/    美 /ˈʃɔɹtn̩/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make shorter; to abbreviate. transitive
    — York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
  2. To become shorter. intransitive
  3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of). transitive
    — Spoiled of his nose, and shorten'd of his ears.
  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
    — Corn flour makes delicious pie crust, and needs less lard to shorten it.
  7. To take in the slack of (a rope). transitive
  8. To reduce (sail) by taking it in. transitive
  9. to dress (a baby) in a short (rather than long) gown dated,transitive
    — Anne and Leslie had another cry the next week when they shortened Little Jem. Anne felt the tragedy of it until evening when in his long nightie she found her own dear baby again.

词形变化

shortens present,singular,third-person shortening participle,present shortened participle,past shortened past

词汇关系

近义词
abbreviate abridge chop down chop off cut short compress condense curt curtail lop off make shorter pare prune reduce in length shorten trim truncate saw off
反义词
extend lengthen
衍生词
foreshorten overshorten preshorten reshorten shortenable shorten down shortener shortening shorten up unshorten unshortened

词源

From Middle English shortnen, schortenen, equivalent to short + -en (verbal suffix). In some senses, a continuation (in altered form) of Middle English schorten (“to make short, shorten”), from Old English sċortian (“to become short”), from Proto-Germanic *skurtōną (“to shorten”).
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