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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abridge \A*bridge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abridged}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Abridging}.] [OE. abregen, OF. abregier, F.
     abr['e]ger, fr. L. abbreviare; ad + brevis short. See {Brief}
     and cf. {Abbreviate}.]
     1. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to
        diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge


        power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his
        visit." --Smollett.
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              She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her
              train from state to necessity.        --Fuller.
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     2. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining
        the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a
        history or dictionary.
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     3. To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by
        from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abridge
       v : reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The
           manuscript must be shortened" [syn: {foreshorten}, {abbreviate},
            {shorten}, {cut}, {contract}, {reduce}] [ant: {elaborate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "abridge":
     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, cut off, cut off short, cut short, damp,
     dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, delete, depreciate, depress,
     deprive, deprive of, digest, diminish, disentitle, divest, dock,
     downgrade, drain, ease one of, edit, edit out, elide, epitomize,
     erase, expunge, expurgate, foreshorten, kill, lessen,
     lighten one of, limit, lower, milk, mine, minify, minimize, mow,
     narrow, nip, nutshell, omit, outline, pare, poll, pollard, prune,
     reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rescind, restrict, retrench,
     roll back, rub out, scale down, shave, shear, shorten, simplify,
     sketch, sketch out, slash, snub, step down, strike, strike off,
     strike out, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take away from,
     take from, take in, tap, telescope, trim, truncate, tune down,
     void
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ABRIDGE, v.t.  To shorten.
  
          When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for
      people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of
      mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
      them to the separation.
                                                         Oliver Cromwell
  
  

















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