Adjective Satellite
cut short in duration
cut short
with parts removed
shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
Source: WordNetOur lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. Herbert Spencer
My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school. Elaine Paige
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. Constantin Stanislavski
He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing. Thomas Carlyle
Which would you rather have? A kid with obesity, heart problems, shortened lifespan, diabetes -- or maybe a little bit of false memory? Elizabeth Loftus
The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow. Carson McCullers