skrócić — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abbreviate verb To make something shorter by leaving out some parts.
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- reduce verb To make something smaller in size, amount, or intensity.
- shorten verb To make something shorter in length, duration, or extent.
Senses
skrócić 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).]
- cancel (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- reduce (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- shorten (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
abbreviate — full definition
- 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 recognise.
cancel — full definition
- verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- verb To make something officially invalid.
- verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
- verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.
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