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precluding, excepting, except for, leaving out, apart from,
setting aside: Short of killing him, I am not sure what she
could have done in the circumstances.
--adv. 11 abruptly, suddenly, peremptorily, without warning,
instantly, unexpectedly, hurriedly, hastily, out of the blue:
She stopped short in the middle of the road and made me get out.
12 cut short. a trim, curtail, shorten, abbreviate, cut: I
must cut my visit short because I have a train to catch. b
stop, cut off, terminate, cut in on, break in on, interrupt;
butt in: I am sorry to cut you short, but it is getting on for
midnight. 13 fall or come short. fail, be or prove inadequate
or insufficient: These grades fall short of our expectations,
Bobby.
--n. 14 in short. briefly, in a word, all in all, to make a
long story short, in a nutshell: He told me, in short, that
there was no job and there never had been one. 15 shorts.
Bermuda shorts, knee-breeches, knee-pants, hot pants: I usually
wear shorts to play tennis.
shortage n. deficit, deficiency, shortfall, dearth, scarcity, lack,
want, paucity: They are predicting a shortage of water again
this summer.
shortcoming
n. failure, defect, deficiency, weakness, frailty, drawback,
liability, imperfection, weak point, flaw: One might
justifiably regard colour-blindness as a shortcoming in an
interior decorator.
shorten v. 1 cut, curtail, cut off or down or short, reduce, diminish,
trim; lop off, dock, prune; hem: Please shorten the time you
spend in the bathroom in the mornings. This skirt has already
been shortened. 2 condense, abridge, abbreviate, digest,
compress: Can one shorten the book without losing too much of
the characterization?
short-lived
adj. ephemeral, evanescent, temporary, fleeting, transitory,
transient, passing, fugacious, volatile: He enjoyed a
short-lived reputation that died with him.