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reshortening

reshortening is the present participle and gerund of reshorten.

Meaning of reshorten

Verb

reshorten (third-person singular simple present reshortens, present participle reshortening, simple past and past participle reshortened)

  1. To shorten again.

Noun

reshortening (countable and uncountable, plural reshortenings)

  1. The act or process of making something shorter again.

Forms of reshortening

pluralreshortenings

Questions about reshortening

What does reshortening mean?
Reshortening means the act or process of making something shorter again.
What is reshortening the present participle and gerund of?
Reshortening is the present participle and gerund of reshorten.
What part of speech is reshortening?
Reshortening is a noun.
What is the plural of reshortening?
The plural of reshortening is reshortenings.

Words near reshortening in the dictionary

  1. reshores
  2. reshoring
  3. reshorn
  4. reshorten
  5. reshortened
  6. reshortening
  7. reshortenings
  8. reshortens
  9. reshot
  10. reshoulder
  11. reshouldered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reshortening (page history and authors); reshorten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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