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shortening in English
- shortening⇄shortening, noun.
1. butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry or cake crisp or easily crumbling.
Ex. Shortening, like salad oil, starts out as roughly refined ""summer oil"" (Wall Street Journal).
2. the act of a person or thing