Abridge

Definition:

• (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
• (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
• (v. t.) To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

Compare abridge with other words:

abridge vs. simplify

abridge vs. expurgate

abridge vs. impair

abridge vs. reduce

abridge vs. protract

abridge vs. omit

abridge vs. edit

abridge vs. content

abridge vs. mobile

abridge vs. truncated

abridge vs. bridge

abbreviation vs. abridge

abridge vs. retrench

abridge vs. foreshorten

abridge vs. cutting

abridge vs. redact

abridge vs. compress

abridge vs. abstract

abate vs. abridge

abridge vs. abridgment

abridge vs. unabridged

abridge vs. curtail

abridge vs. abridged

abridge vs. abridger

abridge vs. history

abridge vs. truncate

abridge vs. condense

abridge vs. dictionary

abridge vs. word

abridge vs. retaining

abridge vs. epitomize

abridge vs. sense

abridge vs. extent

abridge vs. duration

abridge vs. shorten

abridge vs. deprive

abridge vs. brief

abridge vs. debar

abridge vs. cut

abbreviate vs. abridge