Clues for the word "SHORTEN"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 82 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on September 20, 2025.
Definition of shorten
- a. - To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
- a. - To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
- a. - To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
- a. - To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
- v. i. - To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
Referring Clues
- Abbreviate
- Abridge
- Cut
- Take up, as a hem
- Take up
- Reduce in length
- Curtail
- Dock
- Edit, in a way
- Crop
- Edit down
- Contract
- Shaved round fringes in tonsure, so cut
- Back off beach, returning catch to dock
- Don't utter the golden number - add some butter
- Abbreviate, say
- Edit for space
- Cut back
- Hornets fly around prune
- Cut down others growing wild at end of garden
- Dock in North Sea nearly rebuilt
- Truncate
- Make more brief
- Make less tall
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - September 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 26, 2025
- Daily American - January 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 06, 2024
- Daily American - November 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 08, 2024
- Daily American - October 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 18, 2024
- Family Time - August 25, 2024
- USA Today - June 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 07, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 30, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 10, 2024
- Daily American - January 03, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 18, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 05, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 24, 2023
- LA Times - April 20, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - January 31, 2023
- And in 52 more crossword puzzles...