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What is the verb for short?

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shorten

(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
(intransitive) To become shorter.
(transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
(transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
(transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
(nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
(nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
Synonyms:

cut, reduce, abbreviate, trim, condense, curtail, truncate, prune, clip, contract, crop, dock, decrease, lessen, diminish, shrink, compress, snip, lop, chop, bob, downsize, slash, elide, syncopate, telescope, dwindle, minimise, minimize, retrench, excerpt, cut back, cut down, cut short, boil down, pare down, make shorter, get shorter, take up, cut to the bone, turn up, abridge, summarize, abstract, summarise, synopsize, epitomize, digest, precis, pare … more

Examples:

“The ministry will shorten the permit processing to less than seven working days from the current 16 days.”

“The next challenge is to shorten the document to focus on the excerpts most relevant to the essential question.”

“A third solution is to shorten the tree by cutting off part of the trunk.”

short

(transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
(intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
(transitive) To shortchange.
(transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
(transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
(obsolete) To shorten.
Synonyms:

shortchange, cheat, con, defraud, fleece, hustle, swindle, deceive, dupe, mislead, chisel, finagle, scam, chouse, stiff, bamboozle, pluck, trick, mulct, screw, cozen, hose, sandbag, diddle, gaff, bleed, flimflam, shaft, fiddle, sucker, victimise, victimize, bilk, euchre, rip off, shake down, take for a ride, sting, skin, rook, do, stick, squeeze, skunk, ream, thimblerig, nobble, beat, do in, hoodwink … more

Examples:

“That unscrupulous shop owner has been known to short unsuspecting customers.”

shortening

present participle of shorten
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shortens

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shorten
Synonyms:

Examples:

“It automizes the page layout and shortens the phase of creation, correction and setting.”

“Until then, or until such times as the team's injury list shortens, Stark must rely on hope or good fortune to deliver that precious commodity.”

“If the horse gets apprehensive or frightened, his back tightens and shortens.”

shorteneth

(archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shorten

shortenest

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of shorten

shortened

simple past tense and past participle of shorten
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Examples:

“What's worse, though, is the fact that the major manufacturers shortened their warranty periods last fall to just one year.”

“Compact guns are the rage right now, and generally that means both barrel and grip are shortened.”

“I shortened my skirt by 7 inches and lowered the vent by 2 inches because I'm under 5 feet.”

shorted

simple past tense and past participle of short
Synonyms:

shortchanged, cheated, conned, defrauded, fleeced, hustled, swindled, deceived, duped, misled, chiseled, chiselled, finagled, scammed, choused, stiffed, bamboozled, plucked, pluckt, tricked, mulcted, screwed, cozened, hosed, sandbagged, diddled, gaffed, bled, flimflammed, shafted, fiddled, suckered, victimised, victimized, bilked, euchred, ripped off, shook down, shaken down, took for a ride, taken for a ride … more

Examples:

“If you did not do anything with the flyback, gradually the internal capacitance will become shorted and you will need to refurbish the flyback.”

“At some point the electrician came to fix the circuit breaker that shorted out last night.”

“No or low output voltage means the transformer winding has open or shorted winding.”

shorting

present participle of short
Synonyms:

Examples:

“It sort of reminded me of when you see powerlines shorting out, or see a lot of sort of slow sparks leaping out from this central point.”

“This gradually builds up over consecutive recharge cycles until it punctures the separator, shorting the battery out.”

“However, given the posture of the physical market it seems unlikely that further shorting will be very remunerative.”

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