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shortened is an adjective meaning "cut short". It carries 4 recorded senses.
cut short in duration
“the abbreviated speech”
“her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking”
“an unsatisfactory truncated conversation”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shortened come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.