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abridgement 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. condensation: a shortened version of a written work
  2. 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. ...
  3. (abridged) cut or shortened, especially of a literary work
  4. (Abridged) October 28, 1998 HarperCollins Publishers
  5. (abridged) condensed, shortened but keeping the main contents.
  6. The shorter version that results from abridging. See Abridge.
  7. shorten the long wait