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[ adjective ] cut short

Synonyms

sawed-off

Examples

"a sawed-off broomstick" "the shortened rope was easier to use"

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

At the age of ten , when he was working as a newsboy in the Loop , he was knocked_down by a streetcar which resulted in his permanently shortened leg .

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short

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[ adjective ] cut short

Synonyms

sawn-off sawed-off

Examples

"a sawed-off shotgun" "a sawed-off broomstick" "the shortened rope was easier to use"

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short

3
[ adjective ] cut short in duration

Examples

"the abbreviated speech" "a curtailed visit" "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking" "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

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short

4
[ adjective ] shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another

Synonyms

telescoped

Examples

"a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars" "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"

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short short

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[ adjective ] with parts removed

Synonyms

cut

Examples

"the drastically cut film"

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