förkorta — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abbreviate verb To shorten by omitting parts or details.
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- shorten verb To make something shorter in length, duration, or extent.
Senses
förkorta 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.
- shorten (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
abbreviate — full definition
- verb To shorten by omitting parts or details.
- verb To speak or write in a brief manner.
- verb To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
- verb To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
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.