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Abbreviate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make shorter. See Synonyms at shorten.

v. To reduce (a word or phrase) to a shorter form intended to represent the full form.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

v. To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

adj. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

adj. Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

n. An abridgment.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make briefer; abridge; make shorter by contraction or omission of a part: as, to abbreviate a writing or a word.

In mathematics, to reduce to the lowest terms, as fractions.

To practise or use abbreviation.

Abbreviated.

n. An abridgment; an abstract.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. shorten

v. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

Word Usage

"To abbreviate or not to abbreviate, that is the important style question"

Verb Form

abbreviated abbreviates abbreviating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

reduce

Cross Reference

shorten

Form

abbreviated abbreviating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

shorten abridge abbreviated abridged shortened

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

alleviate deviate

Same Context

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