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will shorten

  • future tense
    of shorten.
    shorten
    verb (used with object)
    to make short or shorter.

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And if you get hepatitis B in the first five years of life, you have a 25 percent chance of going on to develop cirrhosis or liver cancer, which will shorten your life.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2025

This second end-replication problem means that both strands of DNA will shorten with each division.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024

But on Thursday, it also revealed it will shorten its opening hours.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023

The new method introduces smoothing to the health insurance index to reduce the volatility and also incorporates semiannual financial data, which will shorten the lag in the index by six months.

From Reuters ● Nov. 14, 2023

‘For tonight we go to the woods on the hills above Woodhall. It is some miles, but you shall have rest at the end of it, and it will shorten your journey tomorrow.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien