[syn: cut, shortened]
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]
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