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.
  •lard (noun)
  • Ghees.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • shaving off,
  • oleo,
  • marking down,
  • decreasings,
  • paring down,
  • reducing,
  • prunings,
  • cutting away,
  • margarines,
  • margarine,
  • trimming,
  • trimmings,
  • croppings,
  • butter,
  • tallow,
  • lard,
  • ghee.
  •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.
  •lowering (verb)
  • depressing,
  • dropping,
  • Plunging,
  • submerging,
  • deepening.
  •shortening (verb)
  • belittling.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • curtail,
  • cooking fat,
  • foreshorten,
  • reduce,
  • disregarding,
  • encapsulation,
  • hourglass,
  • slewing,
  • editing,
  • shrinkage,
  • condensation,
  • initialism,
  • remission,
  • lessen,
  • strangulation,
  • commuting,
  • shorten,
  • ellipsis,
  • issuing,
  • briefing,
  • compendium,
  • neck,
  • Sheering,
  • condense,
  • dip,
  • diminution,
  • repress,
  • recapitulate,
  • decrease,
  • constriction,
  • quell,
  • abbreviate,
  • solidification,
  • conspectus,
  • summarize,
  • quash,
  • bottleneck,
  • Quashing,
  • impairment,
  • Puckering,
  • synopsis,
  • pare,
  • Epitomizing,
  • depletion,
  • depreciation,
  • retraction,
  • subjugate,
  • summarizing,
  • effacement,
  • abridged,
  • slimming,
  • rationalizing,
  • astringency,
  • knitting,
  • cutting,
  • summation,
  • slashing,
  • Skipping,
  • digest,
  • veering,
  • disparagement,
  • suppress,
  • extraction,
  • derogation,
  • signing,
  • minify,
  • isthmus,
  • abridge,
  • repressing,
  • cervix,
  • subtraction,
  • Expurgating,
  • cut down,
  • Restraining,
  • abridgement,
  • Feeing,
  • epitome,
  • summary,
  • squeezing,
  • limiting,
  • swerving,
  • consolidation,
  • Ignoring,
  • acronym,
  • elision,
  • narrowing,
  • Castrating,
  • Abbreviature,
  • concision,
  • Retrenching,
  • coarctation,
  • constricting,
  • docking,
  • restriction,
  • cut short,
  • rationalising,
  • curving,
  • shortener,
  • Diminishment,
  • outline,
  • edible fat,
  • alter,
  • Trending,
  • modify,
  • subdue,
  • abridgment,
  • fall,
  • precis,
  • thinning,
  • shortcut,
  • circumscription,
  • systole,
  • Styling,
  • tailoring,
  • extenuation,
  • cut,
  • oil,
  • Foreshortening,
  • Decurtation,
  • distillate,
  • recapitulation,
  • abstract,
  • restricting,
  • concentration,
  • abate,
  • limitation,
  • decrement,
  • stopping,
  • Minifying,
  • Subduing,
  • pressing,
  • trim,
  • shorting,
  • curbing,
  • abatement,
  • cutback,
  • qualify,
  • stricture,
  • recap,
  • brief,
  • truncation,
  • summarization,
  • Ceasing,
  • commute,
  • cutting off,
  • review,
  • Diluting,
  • declension,
  • adapt,
  • Subjugating,
  • Abstracting,
  • tightening,
  • Snubbing,
  • Abbreviatory,
  • syncope,
  • diminish,
  • confining,
  • compression,
  • Hacking,
  • debase,
  • attrition.

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.

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.