overshorten
verb/ˌəʊ.vəˈʃɔː.tən/UK/ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃɔɹ.tən/US
Etymology
From over- + shorten.
- inherited from shortnen
Definitions
To shorten too much
To 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.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for overshorten. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA