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taken short

taken short adjective: synonym of caught short (“needing to use the toilet where no facilities are available”).

Adjective

taken short (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of caught short (“needing to use the toilet where no facilities are available”).
    Synonyms:
    caught short

Synonyms of taken short

Questions about taken short

What does taken short mean?
Taken short means synonym of caught short (“needing to use the toilet where no facilities are available”).
What part of speech is taken short?
Taken short is an adjective.

Words near taken short in the dictionary

  1. taken serious
  2. taken seriously
  3. taken shape
  4. taken ship
  5. taken shipping
  6. taken short
  7. taken sides
  8. taken silk
  9. taken slave
  10. taken soil
  11. taken some beating

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