Definition for Shortening:

• The act of making short or shorter; that which makes pastry crisp and brittle, as lard, butter, etc.

Synonyms for Shortening:

• n.

  •
  • fat,
  • palm oil,
  • extra virgin,
  • olive oil,
  • monounsaturated,
  • copra,
  • hydrogenated.
  •abridgment (noun)
  • contraction,
  • curtailment,
  • retrenchment,
  • reduction,
  • abbreviation.
  •act (noun)
  • shortening.
  •butter (noun)
  • oleos.
  •reducing (noun)
  • condensings,
  • dis counting,
  • downsizings,
  • cutting downs,
  • shrinkings,
  • de-creasing,
  • paring downs,
  • contractings,
  • diminishings,
  • discountings,
  • de creasing,
  • marking downs,
  • abbreviatings,
  • compressings,
  • dietings,
  • dis-counting.
  •trimming (noun)
  • cutting aways,
  • snippings,
  • shaving offs.

• v.

  •curtailing (verb)
  • Discontinuing,
  • minimizing,
  • fragmenting.
  •decreasing (verb)
  • Curtailing,
  • lessening,
  • compressing,
  • subsiding,
  • Compacting,
  • dying down,
  • contracting,
  • Depleting,
  • dwindling,
  • Abbreviating,
  • receding,
  • decreasing,
  • Truncating,
  • shrinking,
  • Concentrating,
  • abating,
  • Abridging,
  • deflating,
  • Deducting,
  • eroding,
  • diminishing,
  • lowering,
  • draining,
  • decrementing.
  •diminishing (verb)
  • lightening,
  • nipping,
  • Culling,
  • tapering,
  • paring,
  • downgrading,
  • shearing,
  • clipping,
  • pruning,
  • Cropping,
  • condensing,
  • Bobbing,
  • shaving,
  • Weeding.
  •shortening (verb)
  • belittling.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • butter,
  • ghee,
  • lard,
  • margarine,
  • oleo,
  • reducing,
  • tallow,
  • trimming,
  • trimmings,
  • marking down,
  • paring down,
  • croppings,
  • cutting away,
  • decreasings,
  • prunings,
  • shaving off,
  • margarines.

Paraphrases for Shortening:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reduce.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    cutting, contraction.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reduction, reducing, cut, downsizing, decline, improvement, reduced, alleviation.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    hastening, minimising, streamlining, restricting, Restoring, accelerating, constraining, ameliorating, offsetting, hindering, Expediting, Relieving, Alleviating, eroding, Simplifying, Mitigating, Reversing, receding, retreating, slashing, limiting, Depleting, quickening, Truncating, Addressing, squeezing, Stemming, defusing, creeping, waning, curbing, slowing, trimming, Collapsing, abating, reduction, Diluting, declining, sinking, bring, bringing, closing, dropping, Cropping, falling, keeping, cutting, reducing, cut, downsizing, lessening, reduced.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    narrowing, shrinkage, shrinking, curtailment, lowering, stricture, decrease, abridgement, lessening.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    lower, speeding, narrowing, shrinking, lowering.

Antonyms for Shortening:

• n.

  • abridgment
    enlargement, extension, increase, expansion.

Shortening Sentence Examples:

• No one could do anything with Benis and the obvious shortening of Hamilton was considered too Biblical.

• Put in first one - third of the shortening - this, of course, for puff paste.

Homophones for Shortening:

• sardonic, sacredness, scrutinise, sword dance, skywriting, skirting, sorting, scardinius, sordidness, squirting, sardonyx, shortness, seaworthiness, sure thing, shirting, swarthiness, shrewdness, square dance, scrutinize.

Hypernym for Shortening:

• n.

  • act
    cut, cutting, muscle contraction, abbreviation, cutting off, truncation, contraction, muscular contraction.

Hyponym for Shortening:

• n.

  • act
    decrease, reduction, step-down, diminution.
  • food
    edible fat.