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v. To reduce the length of (a written text); condense.

v. To cut short; curtail. See Synonyms at shorten.

v. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail

v. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.

v. To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from.

To make shorter; curtail: as, “abridged cloaks,” Scott, Ivanhoe, xiv. To shorten by condensation or omission, or both; rewrite or reconstruct on a smaller scale; put the main or essential parts of into less space: used of writings: as, Justin abridged the history of Trogus Pompeius.

To lessen; diminish: as, to abridge labor.

To deprive; cut off: followed by of, and formerly also by from: as, to abridge one of rights or enjoyments.

In algebra, to reduce, as a compound quantity or equation, to a more simple form.

v. lessen, diminish, or curtail

v. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

"Constitution that Congress can't begin to 'abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird."

abridged    abridges    abridging   

cutback    curb    curtail    restrict   

shorten    deprive    abate   

abridgement    unabridged   

abridged    abridger   

epitomize    condense    deprive   

Ridge    bridge    fridge    midge    miscavige    ridge   

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