kürzen — meaning in English

English meaning

abbreviate verb To make something shorter by leaving out some parts.
abridge verb To take something away from someone; to cut it off.
abridgment noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
crop noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
curtail verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
prune noun A dried plum.
trim verb To cut away excess from something to neaten it.
truncate verb To make something shorter by cutting a part off the end.

kürzen is used for these senses in English:

abbreviate (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
abridge (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested around 1350–1470]
abridgment (dated, legal) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
cancel (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
crop (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
curtail (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict; to keep in check.
cut down (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
prune (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).

verb To make something shorter by leaving out some parts.
verb To speak or write briefly.
verb To make something take less time than was planned.
verb To shorten a word or phrase into a shorter form that people can still recognize.