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