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Abridge

əˈbrɪdʒ

Abridge definitions

verb

Inflections:

abridge abridged abridges abridging

shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense

"the introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel"

Synonyms:
shorten cut cut short/down curtail truncate lessen trim crop clip pare down prune
curtail (a right or privilege)

"even the right to free speech can be abridged"