弄短，缩短( shorten的过去式和过去分词 )；

1. with parts removed

    e.g. the drastically cut film

    Synonym: cut

2. cut short

    e.g. a sawed-off shotgun
           a sawed-off broomstick
           the shortened rope was easier to use

    Synonym: sawed-offsawn-off

3. shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another

    e.g. a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
           years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream

    Synonym: telescoped

4. cut short in duration

    e.g. the abbreviated speech
           her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking
           an unsatisfactory truncated conversation

    Synonym: abbreviatedtruncated