Difference between Shorten and Improve

SHORTEN vs IMPROVE: VERB

Get better
To make better
To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something)

To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
To make short or shorter.
To become short or shorter.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.

To make useful additions or amendments to, or changes in; to bring nearer to perfection.
To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value.
To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement.
To make beneficial additions or changes.
To become better.
To increase the productivity or value of (land or property).
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better.

To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.

To disprove or make void; to refute.
To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation.
To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize
To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.

To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.
To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To cause to come short or fail.
To deprive.
To check; confine; restrain.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To come short; fail.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.

To disapprove; censure; blame.
To approve; prove; test.
To disprove; prove false; refute.
To make better; ameliorate the condition of; increase in value, excellence, capability, estimation, or the like; bring into a better, higher, more desirable, or more profitable state: as, to improve the mind by study; to improve the breeds of animals; to improve land by careful tillage.
To turn to advantage or account; use profitably; make use of: as, to improve an opportunity; to improve the occasion.
To increase in force or amount; intensify in any respect.
To increase; grow.
To grow better in any way; become more excellent or more favorable; advance in goodness, knowledge, wisdom, amount, value, etc.: as, his health is improving; the price of cotton improves daily.

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Elevate, Expand, Maximize, Streamline, Optimize, Reduce, Boost, Enhancing, Bolster, Strengthen, Enhance, Meliorate, Amend, Ameliorate, Better

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Improvement, Elevate, Expand, Maximize, Streamline, Optimize, Reduce, Boost, Enhancing, Bolster, Strengthen, Enhance, Amend, Ameliorate, Better

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