cut short; a sawed-off shotgun; a sawed-off broomstick; the shortened rope was easier to use
cut short in duration; the abbreviated speech; her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking; an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
[ Syn: abbreviated , truncated ]
shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars; years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
[ Syn: telescoped ]
with parts removed; the drastically cut film
[ Syn: cut ]