Meanings of shorten life in English

If thou wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

And they acknowledge the importance of pain management even when that may shorten life.

Terrible things they are, but they don't shorten life as quickly as some others.

Beer-drinking does not appear to produce any disease, or to shorten life on the hills.

All occupations in which arsenic is used shorten life.

One has only to begin to scheme, to shorten life to half-a-dozen hops and jumps.

Oh, it's wicked to shorten life by wishes even!

A diet high in red meat can shorten life expectancy, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School.

There were no nasty infections or any of a number of other disease processes that shorten life.

Overactivation of these sensory signal transduction pathways can cause cellular senescence, age-related diseases, including cancer, and shorten life span.

The occupation of a boatman was more calculated to destroy the constitution and to shorten life than any other business.

Being obese can shorten life by eight years and condemn a person to almost two decades of ill-health, new research has shown.

IT was a hot August Sunday, one of those days on which art itself must not be made too long lest it should shorten life.

All the evidence favours the opinion that tobacco, like alcohol, shortens life.

The fear habit shortens life, for it impairs all the physiological processes.

And the grim fates laughed too, spinning at a shortening life web.