Associations to the word «Abridge»
Noun
- Chronicle
- Revision
- Adventures
- Press
- Writ
- Transaction
- Ed
- Defendant
- Juliet
- Pamphlet
- Hymn
- Equal
- Publication
- Passage
- Work
- Musical
- Judgement
- English
- Corpus
- Uni
- Isbn
- Recording
- Copy
- Publisher
- Cruelty
- Invention
- Article
- Beethoven
- Broadcast
- Legislation
- Sorcerer
- Violation
- Remark
- Selection
- Dissertation
- Ballet
- Jeanne
- Oriental
- Romeo
- Fiction
- Story
- Title
- Poem
- Romance
- Author
- Opera
- Magazine
- Sonata
- Provision
- Essex
- Wesley
- Fragment
- Penguin
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
ABRIDGE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To deprive; to cut off. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350)]
ABRIDGE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) (rare) To debar from. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350)]
ABRIDGE, verb. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
ABRIDGE, verb. (transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary. [First attested in 1384.]. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
ABRIDGE, verb. (transitive) Cut short; truncate. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
ABRIDGE, verb. (transitive) To curtail. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
Dictionary definition
ABRIDGE, verb. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".
ABRIDGE, verb. Lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.