shorter

Adjective

comparative form of short: more short.
There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take the shorter one.

Noun

(plural shorters)

(colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.

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You're shorter than I expected.
It was shorter but rough and steep.
Darkyn said Hell would do what she asked, so she willed her hair shorter and blonde.
She was shorter, yet had the same hair and moved with the same self-assured serenity as her daughter.
When the ponds were firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points, but new views from their surfaces of the familiar landscape around them.

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