briefen

English

Etymology

From brief +‎ -en.

Verb

briefen (third-person singular simple present briefens, present participle briefening, simple past and past participle briefened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become brief
   • 1897, The Chicago Clinical Review, volume 6, page 594:

     Many of the more striking facts should be briefened in language and laid before the entire medical world.

   • 1907, Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, volume 40:

     It briefens the creeds; it federates the sects; it seeks for religious unity; it gives itself, with a devotion which may well challenge our respect, to the alleviation of human misery and to the reform of the social and political order.