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shortening down

shortening down is the present participle and gerund of shorten down.

Meaning of shorten down

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of shorten up.
    Synonyms:
    shorten up

Questions about shortening down

What is shortening down the present participle and gerund of?
Shortening down is the present participle and gerund of shorten down.

Words near shortening down in the dictionary

  1. shortener
  2. shorteners
  3. shortenest
  4. shorteneth
  5. shortening
  6. shortening down
  7. shortening time
  8. shortening times
  9. shortening up
  10. shortenings
  11. shortens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortening down (page history and authors); shorten down (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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