No. 8,783 in Catalan
escurçar
To shorten or reduce.
In a sentence
Vaig decidir escurçar les mànigues de la camisa.
I decided to shorten the sleeves of the shirt.
Here, 'escurçar' means to physically shorten or reduce the length of an object.
Hem d'escurçar el temps de preparació per ser puntuals.
We must shorten the preparation time to be punctual.
In this sentence, 'escurçar' refers to reducing the duration or time allocated for an activity.
Van escurçar el discurs per adaptar-se al temps disponible.
They shortened the speech to adapt to the available time.
Here, 'escurçar' is used to denote reducing or abbreviating spoken content to fit a time constraint.
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