What is the meaning of shortened?

verb

• Make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration.
  • usage: "He shortened his trip due to illness"
  • synonyms: shorten
• Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
  • usage: "The manuscript must be shortened"
  • synonyms: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
• Make short or shorter.
  • usage: "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
  • synonyms: shorten
• Become short or shorter.
  • usage: "In winter, the days shorten"
  • synonyms: shorten
• Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.
  • usage: "bowdlerize a novel"
  • synonyms: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten

adjective

• Cut short.
  • usage: "a sawed-off shotgun"; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use"
  • synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off
• Cut short in duration.
  • usage: "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
  • synonyms: abbreviated, truncated
• Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another.
  • usage: "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
  • synonyms: telescoped
• With parts removed.
  • usage: "the drastically cut film"
  • synonyms: cut