Meanings
verbovershorten (third-person singular simple present overshortens, present participle overshortening, simple past and past participle overshortened)
present singular third person overshortens · participle present overshortening · participle past overshortened · past overshortened
- transitiveTo shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short.
This plant has only a certain capacity for daylight, and to overshorten the nights would injure it.
1936, Harold Vincent Marrot, editor, The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy, 2nd revised edition, Heinemann, page 696
Origin
Translations
Finnish lyhentää liikaa
- lyhentää liikaato shorten too much
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APA
overshorten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overshorten
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“overshorten.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overshorten. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
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