abridgement
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- condensation: a shortened version of a written work
- Abridgement or abridgment is a term defined as "shortening" or "condensing" and is most commonly used in reference to the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter form. ...
- (abridged) cut or shortened, especially of a literary work
- (Abridged) October 28, 1998 HarperCollins Publishers
- (abridged) condensed, shortened but keeping the main contents.
- The shorter version that results from abridging. See Abridge.
- shorten the long wait