Abridge
11abridge — UK [əˈbrɪdʒ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms abridge : present tense I/you/we/they abridge he/she/it abridges present participle abridging past tense abridged past participle abridged to produce a shorter form of a book, play etc by making cuts …
12abridge — a•bridge [[t]əˈbrɪdʒ[/t]] v. t. a•bridged, a•bridg•ing 1) to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents: to abridge a book[/ex] 2) to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, or extent; diminish; curtail: to abridge a visit[/ex] 3) to… …
13abridge — transitive verb (abridged; abridging) Etymology: Middle English abregen, from Anglo French abreger, from Late Latin abbreviare, from Latin ad + brevis short more at brief Date: 14th century 1. a. archaic deprive …
14abridge — verb /əˈbrɪdʒ/ a) To make shorter; to shorten in duration. , The bridegroom ... abridged his visit. Smollett b) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; …
15abridge — verb she was hired to abridge the works of Shakespeare for a children s book club Syn: shorten, cut, cut short, cut down, curtail, truncate, trim, crop, clip, pare down, prune; abbreviate, condense, contract, compress, reduce, decrease, shrink …
16abridge — To reduce or contract; to diminish or curtail. Usually spoken of written language. See abridgment. Copyright law. To epitomize; to reduce; to contract. It implies preserving the substance, the essence, of a work, in language suited to such a… …
17abridge — To reduce or contract; to diminish or curtail. Usually spoken of written language. See abridgment. Copyright law. To epitomize; to reduce; to contract. It implies preserving the substance, the essence, of a work, in language suited to such a… …
18abridge — To reduce; to cut down; to omit a part of a prayer or demand for relief. To abridge within the meaning of the law of copyright is to preserve the substance, the essence, of the work in more terse language suited to the purpose. 18 Am J2d Copyr §… …
19abridge — Synonyms and related words: abbreviate, abstract, bereave, bleed, blot out, blue pencil, bob, boil down, bowdlerize, brief, cancel, capsule, capsulize, censor, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down …
20abridge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. condense, shorten, compress, contract. See shortness.Ant., expand, extend. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. digest, condense, compress, shorten; see decrease 2 , shorten . See Synonym Study at shorten . III… …
