abridge
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
- From Middle English abreggen (“curtail, lessen”), abregge, abrigge,[1] from Old French abregier abreger, from Late Latin abbrevio (“make brief”), from Latin ad + brēvio (“shorten”).[2]
- See brief and compare abbreviate
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
abridge (third-person singular simple present abridges, present participle abridging, simple past and past participle abridged)
- (transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350)][3]
- (transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350)][3]
- (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)][3]
- The bridegroom ... abridged his visit. - Smollett
- She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. - Fuller
- (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.][4]. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)][3]
- (transitive) Cut short; truncate. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)][3]
- (transitive) To curtail. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)][3]
- He had his rights abridged by the crooked sherrif.
Usage notes [edit]
- (deprive): Usually used with to or sometimes with from as, to abridge one of his rights.
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Translations [edit]
to make shorter
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to shorten or contract by using fewer words
to deprive
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References [edit]
- ^ 1984 [1975], Urdang, Laurence editor, The Random House College Dictionary, New York, NY: Random House, Inc., ISBN 0-394-43600-8, page 5:
- ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 6:
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 8:
- ^ 2004 [1998], Elliott K. Dobbie; Dunmore, C. William, et al., Barnhart, Robert K. editor, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Edinburgh, Scotland: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, ISBN 0550142304, page 4:
