ABRIDGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does abridge mean?
• ABRIDGE (verb)
The verb ABRIDGE has 2 senses:
1. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
2. lessen, diminish, or curtail
Familiarity information: ABRIDGE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ABRIDGE (verb)
Meaning:
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
abridge; foreshorten; abbreviate; shorten; contract; reduce; cut
Context example:
The manuscript must be shortened
Hypernyms (to "abridge" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abridge"):
bowdlerise; bowdlerize; castrate; expurgate; shorten (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate)
concentrate; condense; digest (make more concise)
Sentence frames:
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Sentence example:
They won't abridge the story
Meaning:
Lessen, diminish, or curtail
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the new law might abridge our freedom of expression
Hypernyms (to "abridge" is one way to...):
curb; curtail; cut back; restrict (place restrictions on)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
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