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Plural of shortening

regular plural

The plural of shortening is shortenings.

Forms of shortening

Singularshortening
Pluralshortenings
Countablecountable and uncountable

Meaning of shortening

  1. noun Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.

Full definition of shortening

Questions about the plural of shortening

What is the plural of shortening?
The plural of shortening is shortenings.
Is shortening countable?
Shortening is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortening (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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