shortened

cut short

• “a sawed-off shotgun”
• “a sawed-off broomstick”
• “the shortened rope was easier to use”

cut short in duration

• “the abbreviated speech”
• “a curtailed visit”
• “her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking”
• “an unsatisfactory truncated conversation”

shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another

• “a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars”
• “years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream”

with parts removed

• “the drastically cut film”