Abridge Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-brĭj
To reduce the length of (a written text); condense:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shorten

Words Related to Abridge

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. decrease
  2. See syn. study at
  3. long
  4. abridgement
  5. expurgate
  6. edited version
  7. abridged

Abridge Sentence Examples

  • He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge.

  • Alcuin (q.v.) does nothing more in his Dialectic than abridge Boetius and the other commentators.

  • Immediately afterward he was a member of a commission appointed "to revise the laws in force in the state; to select, abridge, alter and digest them, so as to be accommodated to the present government."

  • Each light body acts as abridge between the worlds and creates a personal connection to expanded states of consciousness.

  • So little was the collection considered as a literary work with a definite text that every one assumed a right to abridge or enlarge, to insert ideas of his own, or fresh scriptural quotations; nor were the scribes and translators by any means scrupulous about the names of natural objects, and even the passages from Holy Writ.

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