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"2": "over",
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"etymology_text": "over- + shorten",
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{
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"tags": [
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"singular",
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},
{
"form": "overshortening",
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{
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{
"ref": "1936, Harold Vincent Marrot, editor, The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy, 2nd revised edition, Heinemann, page 696",
"text": "This plant has only a certain capacity for daylight, and to overshorten the nights would injure it.",
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"To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short."
],
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"(transitive) To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short."
],
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to shorten too much",
"word": "lyhentää liikaa"
}
]
}
],
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],
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"(transitive) To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"UK"
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},
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"tags": [
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"enpr": "ō'vər.shôrʹtən"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to shorten too much",
"word": "lyhentää liikaa"
}
],
"word": "overshorten"
}
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