To spread out; expand; extend.
Extended outward, as one's arms.
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
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 short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).