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shortening
Part of speech: NounThe act of making short or shorter; that which makes pastry crisp and brittle, as lard, butter, etc.
Usage examples "shortening":- Darkness deepened, imperceptibly, surely, fore- shortening the horizon, and by just so much increasing the distance that separated her from her people. - "The Gun-Brand", James B. Hendryx.
- If the keeper of Heaven's gate is pleased with the generous action which the lost soul performed while on earth, he has the power of shortening the time of punishment, or can even pardon it altogether, and bid it enter into Paradise. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
- The Forward Officer called down the shortening ranges to the guns, and the answering shrapnel fell fiercely on the German line and tore it to fragments- but the fragments still advanced. - "Between the Lines", Boyd Cable.