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abridged

/əˈbɹɪd͡ʒd/

abridged adjective: cut or shortened, especially of a literary work. Also the simple past and past participle of abridge.

Adjective

abridged (comparative more abridged, superlative most abridged)

  1. Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
    • The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length.
    • How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!1850, T. S. Arthur, “A Rise in the Butter Market”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 59

Also used as

abridged is also the simple past and past participle of abridge.

abridged meaning in Bengali, Telugu and Gujarati

abridged in Bengali

cut or shortened, especially of a literary work
মুখতসর mukhtosor

abridged in Telugu

cut or shortened, especially of a literary work
సంక్షిప్తము saṅkṣiptamu

abridged in Gujarati

સંક્ષિપ્ત કરાયેલ

Forms of abridged

comparativemore abridged
superlativemost abridged

Origin of abridged

From abridge + -ed.

Words formed from abridged

Words that rhyme with abridged

Questions about abridged

What does abridged mean?
Abridged means cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
What is abridged in Bengali?
Abridged in Bengali is মুখতসর (mukhtosor). See Abridged meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is abridged?
Abridged is an adjective.
How do you pronounce abridged?
Abridged is pronounced /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒd/.

Words near abridged in the dictionary

  1. abricock
  2. abricocks
  3. abridgable
  4. abridge
  5. abridgeable
  6. abridged
  7. abridgedly
  8. abridgement
  9. abridgements
  10. abridger
  11. abridgers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abridged (page history and authors); abridged (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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