Word.ws English Dictionary

shortening up

shortening up is the present participle and gerund 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 shortening up

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

Words near shortening up in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shortening 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shortening up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shortening_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.