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Synonyms and Antonyms of shortening
- we decided to shorten the distance we had to walk home by cutting across the neighbor's lawn
- if Grandma has to go shopping today, you'll need to shorten your visit
abstracting, digesting, encapsulating, epitomizing, recapitulating, summarizing, summing up
abating, compressing, constricting, contracting, cutting, cutting down, paring, pruning, trimming
decreasing, de-escalating, deflating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, moderating, modifying, reducing, retrenching, shrinking, slashing, subtracting (from), tapering
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