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Verb
/əˈbrij/,
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abridging, present participle; abridged, past tense; abridges, 3rd person singular present; abridged, past participle;
  1. Shorten (a book, movie, speech, or other text) without losing the sense
    • - the cassettes have been abridged from the original stories
    • - an abridged text of his speech
  2. Curtail (rights or privileges)
    • - even the right to free speech can be abridged
  1. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
  2. lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"
  3. Abridge is a village in Essex, England. It is on the River Roding, southwest of the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Epping Forest and in the parliamentary constituency of Brentwood & Ongar. ...
  4. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary; To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights; To lessen; to ...
  5. (Abridging) reducing or restricting
  6. Order to bring forward date allocated for hearing (or arbitration) etc.
  7. To make shorter by removal of surplus, excess, or less important text. In complex cases, a party might write an abridged (condensed) version of a memorandum of law or other legal argument to serve as an introduction to the longer version that contains all the details. ...
  8. To shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents; to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish; curtail (Websters, p. 6)
  9. (v) - condense or shorten