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Synonyms of short in English:
short
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See Spanish definition of corto
adjective
1‘a short piece of string’
long
2‘the problem for short people was to see over the crowd’
tall
3‘there is a female redwing in the short scrubby bushes’
tall
4‘the ‘Times’ published a short report of the affair’
long, overlong, verbose
5‘for a short time’
6‘let's take the short route’
roundabout
7‘money is a bit short at the moment’
plentiful
8‘he was rather short with her’
patient, courteous
9‘short pastry’
adverb
1‘Iris headed for the kitchen, then stopped short’
Phrases
- in short
‘in short, then, the government is being called to account for the economic disaster’
in full
1‘holidays or sickness may leave a ward short of nurses’
2‘short of interning suspects without trial, there is little the security forces can do’