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Shorteners
- noun - any agent that shortens; "alcohol is a great shortener of life"
Shortening
- verb - act of decreasing in length; "the dress needs shortening"
- become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
- fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
- make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
Shortfalls
- noun - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
Shortgrass
- noun - any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains
Shorthands
- noun - a method of writing rapidly
Shorthorns
- noun - English breed of short-horned cattle
Shortlists
- noun - a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
- put someone or something on a short list
- Whittled down to a few
Shortstops
- noun - (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
Shoshonean
- noun - a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States
Shoshonian
- noun - a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States