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Meanings of shorten (shortening) in English
Synonyms
Examples for "castrate"
Examples for "castrate"
1
If introduced, the ban would effectively castrate the powerful devices there.
2
The effect was to castrate both Shevardnadze and his plans for the pipeline.
3
She's got to throttle back, or she'll castrate everything in the domestic niche.
4
Provisional Clinical Opinion For men with CRPC, a castrate state should be maintained indefinitely.
5
It's probably because I know how to castrate farm animals.
1
I'll have to expurgate it or you'd have a rush of blood to the head, you're so excitable.
2
Why must Northern publishers expurgate and emasculate the literature of the world before it is permitted to reach them?
3
In a few months' time those in authority in the French school found that it was not necessary to supervise and expurgate her.
4
More often, the versions I found were outdated, expurgated, or badly translated.
5
The plays of Shakespeare are expurgated only where necessary for school use.
1
She should not be allowed to disguise and bowdlerize it to suit the unwelcome tastes she had acquired at school.
2
I cannot, unfortunately, bowdlerize the best of these without spoiling them, so I will endeavor to give a few examples of the less forceful.
3
To tell this bowdlerized story of her brother was to elevate herself.
4
Not being an adept liar, she continued with a bowdlerized version of the facts.
5
He'd already spoken to his editor and told him a slightly bowdlerized version of the latest developments.
1
In addition to "bowdlerise," there is "sandwich."
2
Last summer, Stephen Sondheim was reported as suggesting that Walt Disney was set to bowdlerise his immaculate deconstruction of fairytale mythos.
3
It might have been bowdlerised MacMillan but it had seismic force.
4
It then had to be substantially bowdlerised to secure the chance of release in Russia.
5
Roth's fiction has previously been mangled and bowdlerised into such unlovely movies as The Human Stain.
Usage of shortening in English
1
Conclusion: Telomere shortening has been reported in several metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.
2
Sonomicrocrystals demonstrated greater protection of border zone fractional shortening at 6 weeks.
3
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk and melted shortening; beat well.
4
And the odds on either, or on a second referendum, are shortening.
5
Each time we moved into shadow, I sensed winter and shortening days.
6
A small intestinal submucosa patch was successfully used to prevent vaginal shortening.
7
Long shadows stretched out behind us, but they were shortening every minute.
8
Although broadly satisfactory in its details, this section would benefit from shortening.
9
Brush with shortening and broil in the gas oven for ten minutes.
10
Still, there is more to this shortening of the future than dates.
11
Heat the molasses, pour it over the shortening, and add the milk.
12
Place one-half cup of shortening in a large frying pan and add
13
A similar shortening occurs in the matter of Rosader's flight from home.
14
A shower of sparks flew from the end of the shortening fuse.
15
The days were now shortening rapidly; it was dark before eight o'clock.
16
Sift again to mix and then rub in one-half cup of shortening.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Shortening through the time
Shortening across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common