abridge
abridge is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
- 2.To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abate
- abatement
- abbreviate
- abbreviation
- abbreviature
- abridgment
- abstract
- album
- analecta
- analectic
- analysis
- and
- anthology
- anticlimax
- apercu
- attenuate
- away
- bate
- book
- brevity
- brief
- briefly
- close
- coarctation
- collect
- collectanea
- come
- comes
- commonplace
- compact
- compend
- compendious
- compendium
- compilation
- compile
- compress
- compressed
- compression
- concise
- concisely
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is abridge.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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