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abridge

verb
/əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ/UK/əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

From Middle English abreggen, abregge, abrigge (“curtail, lessen”), from Old French abregier, abreger, from Late Latin abbreviō, abbreviāre (“make brief”). Doublet of abbreviate.

  1. derived from abbrevio — “make brief”
  2. derived from abregier
  3. inherited from abreggen

Definitions

  1. To deprive

    To deprive; to cut off.

  2. To debar from.

  3. To make shorter

    To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.

    • She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity.
    • The bridegroom, perceiving his condition, abridged the visit […]
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense

      To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.

      • Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness."

    2. Cut short

      Cut short; truncate.

    3. To curtail.

      • He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.

    4. A village in Essex, England.

The neighborhood

Derived

abridgable, abridgeable, abridged, abridgement, abridger, abridgment, reabridge

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at abridge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at abridge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at abridge

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA