abridges

Verb

abridge (third-person singular simple present abridges, present participle abridging, simple past and past participle abridged)

1. (archaic, transitive) To deprive; to cut off.
2. (archaic, rare, transitive) To debar from.
3. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
   • She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity.1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 2, Chapter 31, p. 85
4. (transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
   • It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil. He abridged his Dictionary. He proposed to bring out an edition of Shakespeare by subscription, and many subscribers sent in their...1911, Samuel Johnson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
5. (transitive) Cut short; truncate.
6. (transitive) To curtail.
   • He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.

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