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shortened up

shortened up is the simple past and past participle of shorten up.

Meaning of shorten up

Verb

shorten up (third-person singular simple present shortens up, present participle shortening up, simple past and past participle shortened up)

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To make something shorter in height, briefer in duration or more close together.
    • You have to shorten this movie up.

Questions about shortened up

What is shortened up the simple past and past participle of?
Shortened up is the simple past and past participle of shorten up.

Words near shortened up in the dictionary

  1. shorten down
  2. shorten up
  3. shortenable
  4. shortened
  5. shortened down
  6. shortened up
  7. shortener
  8. shorteners
  9. shortenest
  10. shorteneth
  11. shortening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortened up (page history and authors); shorten up (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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