- Abbreviate - Contract to topple thrones - Cut down Aussie politician - Reduce in length - To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as,
to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. - To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to
lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an
allowance of food, etc. - To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.