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Terms vs Overshorten - What's the difference?

terms | overshorten |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb overshorten is

to shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short.

terms

English

Noun

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    overshorten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short.
  • * 1936 , Harold Vincent Marrot (editor), The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy , page 696 (second, revised edition; Heinemann)
    • This plant has only a certain capacity for daylight, and to overshorten the nights would injure it.