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[ adjective ] cut short
Synonyms 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 . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] cut short in duration
Synonyms Examples "the abbreviated speech" "a curtailed visit" "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking" "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
Synonyms Examples "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars" "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream" |
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