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abridged

adj
/əˈbɹɪd͡ʒd/

Etymology

From abridge + -ed.

  1. derived from abbrevio — “make brief”
  2. derived from abregier
  3. inherited from abreggen
  4. suffixed as abridged — “abridge + ed”

Definitions

  1. Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.

    • The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length.
    • How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!

  2. simple past and past participle of abridge

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at abridged. 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 abridged. 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 abridged

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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