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S: (v) shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration) "He shortened his trip due to illness"
S: (v) abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements) "The manuscript must be shortened"
S: (v) shorten (make short or shorter) "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"

S: (v) shorten (become short or shorter) "In winter, the days shorten"
S: (v) bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate) "bowdlerize a novel"

S: (v) abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements) "The manuscript must be shortened"

W: (n) bowdlerization [Related to: bowdlerize] (written material that has been bowdlerized)
W: (n) bowdlerization [Related to: bowdlerize] (the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent)
W: (n) bowdlerizer [Related to: bowdlerize] (a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages) "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator"
W: (n) bowdlerisation [Related to: bowdlerise] (written material that has been bowdlerized)
W: (n) bowdlerisation [Related to: bowdlerise] (the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent)
W: (n) Bowdler [Related to: bowdlerise] (English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825))
W: (n) bowdleriser [Related to: bowdlerise] (a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages) "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator"
W: (n) expurgation [Related to: expurgate] (the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work)

W: (n) expurgator [Related to: expurgate] (a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages) "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator"
W: (n) castration [Related to: castrate] (the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work)