complete vs shorten

complete

verb
  • To finish; to make done; to reach the end. 

  • To call from the small blind in an unraised pot. 

  • To make whole or entire. 

noun
  • A completed survey. 

adj
  • In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound. 

  • That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space). 

  • In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space. 

  • Generic intensifier. 

  • In which all small limits exist. 

  • With all parts included; with nothing missing; full. 

  • In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable. 

  • Finished; ended; concluded; completed. 

shorten

verb
  • To take in the slack of (a rope). 

  • To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen. 

  • To reduce (sail) by taking it in. 

  • To become shorter. 

  • To make shorter; to abbreviate. 

  • To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc. 

  • To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of). 

How often have the words complete and shorten occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )