SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: NOUN
- Any agent that shortens
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SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: VERB
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shorten.
- Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- Make short or shorter
- Make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- Become short or shorter
- To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
- Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.
- To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example); expurgate.
SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: OTHER WORD TYPES
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- To expurgate in editing by expunging words or passages considered offensive or indelicate.
SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: RELATED WORDS
- Narrows, Shrinks, Diminishes, Lessens, Lowers, Reduces, Bowdlerise, Bowdlerize, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce
- Vulgarise, Traducingly, Elide, Anglicize, Unexpurgated, Mistranslate, Abridge, Reword, Censor, Bastardize, Expurgatory, Expurgator, Shorten, Expurgate, Bowdlerise
SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Extends, Simplifies, Lengthens, Cuts, Crops, Sarcomere, Decreases, Reduced, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce
- Americanize, Censorable, Metaphrase, Redact, Traducingly, Elide, Anglicize, Unexpurgated, Abridge, Reword, Censor, Bastardize, Expurgatory, Shorten, Expurgate
SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Shortens or eliminates work the student already knows.
- Interference with the natural rebound always shortens tonalduration.
- Daylight shortens, the waters cool into icy silence.
- Irradiation shortens the shelf life by seven days.
- Partial answer in that it shortens the process.
- This shortens the total supply chain lead time.
- CONS: Extensive use of backlighting shortens battery life.
- Shortens the event a scoreboard, wells fargo arena.
- Smoking shortens life expectancy among persons with SMI.
- Yet to be known shortens my made intent.
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SHORTENS vs BOWDLERIZE: QUESTIONS
- How many units have been built in shortens country estate?
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