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Pullman Car :: Pullman car () A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

Foreshortening :: Foreshortening (n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

Coronary :: Coronary (n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack..

Shortener :: Shortener (n.) One who, or that which, shortens..

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity..

Apocopation :: Apocopation (n.) Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

Contract :: Contract (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action..

Pa :: Pa (n.) A shortened form of Papa.

A :: A (prep.) In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging..

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Contract :: Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To contract; to shorten.

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it..

O :: O' (prep.) A shortened form of of or on.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

Detuncate :: Detuncate (v. t.) To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

Roll :: Roll (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself..

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc..

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