The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ABRIDGE , but the solution may also be TRUNCATE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Shorten crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABRIDGE | 25 % | 7 |
| HEM | 11 % | 3 |
| CLIP | 9 % | 4 |
| TRUNCATE | 9 % | 8 |
| CROP | 7 % | 4 |
| ABBREVIATE | 7 % | 10 |
| CURTAIL | 7 % | 7 |
| LOP | 5 % | 3 |
| CONDENSE | 5 % | 8 |
| TAKEUP | 5 % | 6 |
| CUT | 5 % | 3 |
| TELESCOPE | 2 % | 9 |
| ELIDE | 2 % | 5 |
| PARE | 2 % | 4 |
Why may TRUNCATE be the right solution?
The word "shorten" means to make something shorter or to reduce its length. "Truncate" means to shorten by cutting off a part of something. Therefore, "Truncate" is an appropriate answer to the crossword clue "Shorten".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Shorten
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- reduce
- abbreviate
- cut
- abridge
- contract
- bowdlerise
- bowdlerize
- expurgate
- foreshorten
- streamline
- lessen
- improve
Crossword Answer definitions
ABRIDGE verb- To deprive; to cut off.
- To debar from.
- To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
- To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
- Cut short; truncate.
- To curtail.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABRIDGE
- Condense, as a book
- Cut down
- Make a long story short
- Cut
- Reduce in scope
- Reduce in volume?
- Shorten, as a reference
- Reduce, as a text
- Shorten
- Condense
More clues leading to the result HEM
- Shorten
- Stitch
- Finished edge
- Haw's partner
- Line of fashion
- Shorten, in a way
- Border on a piece of cloth
- Clothes line
- Designer's bottom line
- End of the A-line?
More clues leading to the result CLIP
- Brooch
- What you do with coupons
- __-on tie
- Bit of film
- Hair holder
- Kind of joint
- Shorten
- Type of board
- Paper fastener
- Shear off
More clues leading to the result TRUNCATE
More clues leading to the result CROP
- Harvest haul
- Rider's whip
- Trim
- Farmer's concern
- Riding whip
- Trim a hedge or photograph
- Jockey's whip
- __-duster (kind of airplane)
- Cut short
- Cut, as an ex-friend from a picture
More clues leading to the result ABBREVIATE
More clues leading to the result CURTAIL
More clues leading to the result LOP
- Cut off
- Remove some branches
- Trim
- Remove, as branches
- Be a branch manager?
- Chop (off)
- Cut (off)
- Cut (off), as branches
- Do some landscaping work, say
- Do some topiary
More clues leading to the result CONDENSE
More clues leading to the result TAKEUP
- Begin an interest in
- Seize on
- Learn, as a hobby
- Start, as a new hobby
- Start, as a hobby
- Start to discuss
- Make shorter.
- Occupy (time).
- Become interested in.
- Begin to learn.
More clues leading to the result CUT
- Kick off the team
- "This take is garbage"
- Song, as it were
- Sporting a six-pack, say
- Director's cry
- Share
- "Stop shooting!"
- Edit menu word
- Movie release
- Slice
More clues leading to the result TELESCOPE
- Condense
- Observatory tool
- Meteor shower
- Astronomer's magnifying device
- Found on Mount Wilson.
- Our eye into space.
- Mt. Palomar has the world's largest.
- Wonder on Mount Palomar.
- Scientist's instrument.
- Mount Wilson appurtenance.
More clues leading to the result ELIDE
- Omit
- Omit out of consideration
- Make an omission
- Say "G'day" or "Go 'way"
- Say 'ere or 'ead
- Skip over
- Slip over
- Slur over
- Omit, in speech
- Leave out