cat men (noun) second-story man: burglar
Sinonime: abbreviate,
abridge, blue pencil, bob, boil down,
chop, clip,
compress, condense,
contract,
curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut to the bone,
dock,
edit, elide,
excerpt,
lessen, lop, make a long story short,
minimize, put in a nutshell,
reduce, retrench,
shrink,
slash, snip, trim
Antonime: amplify, elongate,
enlarge,
grow,
increase, lengthen