əˈbɹiːvieɪtɪd əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɪd kʌt with parts removed the drastically cut film shortened a sawed-off shotgun a sawed-off broomstick the shortened rope was easier to use shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream cut short in duration the abbreviated speech her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking an unsatisfactory truncated conversation