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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut off, cut short, lop, pare, prune, shear, top, trim |
| Antonyms: | elongate, expand, lengthen, stretch |
| Main Entry: | scarce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insufficient, infrequent |
| Synonyms: | at a premium, deficient, failing, few, few and far between, in short supply, limited, occasional, rare, scant, scanty, seldom, seldom met with, semioccasional, short, shortened, shy, sparse, sporadic, truncated, uncommon, unusual, wanting |
| Notes: | rare means not widely known or recurring only at long intervals or not widely distributed; scarce means not enough or deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand |
| Antonyms: | abundant, frequent, plentiful, sufficient |
| Main Entry: | thumbnail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | condensed |
| Synonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, brief, compact, concise, contracted, curtailed, epigrammatic, short, short and sweet, succinct, summary, to the point, truncated |
| Main Entry: | maimed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurt |
| Synonyms: | battered, injured, lame, mangled, mutilated, truncated |
| Main Entry: | smallish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | little |
| Synonyms: | Lilliputian, babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, not big, not large, peanut, petite, scant, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slight, small, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young |
| Main Entry: | abbreviate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut short an activity |
| Synonyms: | abort, curtail, restrict, stop short, truncate |
| Antonyms: | expand, extend, increase, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | abridge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abstract, blue pencil, chop, clip, compress, concentrate, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize, lessen, limit, narrow, put in nutshell, reduce, restrict, slash, snip, summarize, trim, truncate |
| Antonyms: | add, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | amputate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove a limb |
| Synonyms: | cut away, cut off, dismember, eliminate, excise, lop, separate, sever, truncate |
| Main Entry: | chop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up with tool |
| Synonyms: | axe, cleave, clip, cube, dice, divide, fell, fragment, hack, hackle, hash, hew, lop, mangle, mince, sever, shear, slash, truncate, whack |
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