Synonyms of shorten

1 Syllable
bob, lop, chop, bant, clip, clipt, snip, shrink, cut, shear, trim, dock, shrunk, slash, shrank, shorn
2 Syllables
compress, retrench, restrict, shearing, contract, trimmed, lessen, demark, curtail, densen, banting, pollard, clipped, cropping, excerpt, pruning, pruned, edit, cropped, curtails, sheared
3 Syllables
simplifying, restricting, inclose, compressing, simplifies, unscrambling, bankrupted, summated, condensing, reduce, curtailing, inclosed, unscrambled, bankrupting, unscramble, compresses, abridge, condense, confine, compressed, curtailed, summate, elide, summating, inclosing, simplify
4 Syllables
telescope, telescoping, abbreviate, syncopate, detruncate, capsulize, summarizing, syncopated, minimize, summarized, summarize