4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: abridged \abridged\ adj. 1. 1 shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts: an abridged version [Narrower terms: {half-length}] {unabridged, full-length} Syn: condensed [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] 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. [1913 Webster] She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 2. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary. [1913 Webster] 3. To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: abridged adj : (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version" [ant: {unabridged}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 58 Moby Thesaurus words for "abridged": Spartan, abbreviated, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated
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