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Shorten [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. short'n .

2. To become short or shorter. The day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December.

3. To contract; as, a cord shortens by being wet; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

Shorten [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. short'n .

2. To make short in measure, extent or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

3. To abridge; to lessen; as, to shorten labor or work.

4. To curtail; as, to shorten the hair by clipping.

5. To cintract; to lessen; to diminish in extent or amount; as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance of provisions.

6. To confine; to restrain.

7. Here where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. Dryden .

8. To lop; to deprive.

9. The youth- shortened of his ears. Dryden .

Shorten [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.

3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.

Shorten [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

Shortened [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made shorter; abridged; contracted.

Shortened / [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Shortener [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, shortens.

Shortening [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Something used in cookery to make paste short or friable, as butter or lard.

2. Short writing; a compendious method of writing by substituting characters, abbreviations or symbols for words; otherwise called stenography .

Shortening [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making shorter; contracting.

Shortening [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

2. That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.

Shortening [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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9 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “Shorten”

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

Psalms 89:45

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

Psalms 102:23

He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.

Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Isaiah 59:1

Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

Matthew 24:22

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

Mark 13:20

And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.

2 Esdras 2:13

Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.

Sirach 30:24

Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.