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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become shorter.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
▸ verb:  (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
▸ verb:  (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
▸ verb:  (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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