overshortening

Verb

overshorten (third-person singular simple present overshortens, present participle overshortening, simple past and past participle overshortened)

1. (transitive) To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short.
   • This plant has only a certain capacity for daylight, and to overshorten the nights would injure it.1936, Harold Vincent Marrot, editor, The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy, 2nd revised edition, Heinemann, page 696