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shortens up

shortens up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 shortens up

What is shortens up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shortens up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shorten up.

Words near shortens up in the dictionary

  1. shortening times
  2. shortening up
  3. shortenings
  4. shortens
  5. shortens down
  6. shortens up
  7. shorter
  8. shorter haul
  9. shorter-acting
  10. shorter-distance
  11. shorter-grain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortens 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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