acortarse

v. shorten, become shorter

(v.) = grow + shorter
Ex: With days growing shorter, time was precious, and man was reminded of the long darkness ahead.

= curtail, shorten, truncate, conflate, foreshorten, cut + Nombre + short, abridge, abbreviate, cut across.
Ex: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
Ex: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.
Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
Ex: Authors did not always read proofs; revises might be omitted and routines conflated.
Ex: Medicine also needs to reconsider whether actions that foreshorten life can be normative and permissible.
Ex: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.
Ex: Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.
Ex: The Dewey Decimal Classification (abbreviated to either DC or DDC) is arguably the most important bibliographic classification scheme.
Ex: He looked up and saw two figures cutting across the field, a colored man and woman, each carrying a bottle.
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* acortar las diferencias = close + the gap.
* acortar las distancias = close + the gap.
* acortar las distancias entre ... y = narrow + the gap between ... and.
* acortar + Posesivo + vida = cut + Posesivo + life short.
* acortarse = grow + shorter.