jack up vs shorten

jack up

verb
  • To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means. 

  • To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates. 

  • To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up. 

  • To organise something. 

  • To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity. 

shorten

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

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

  • 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). 

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