[ US /əˈbɹɪdʒ/ ]
VERB
  1. lessen, diminish, or curtail
    the new law might abridge our freedom of expression
  2. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
    The manuscript must be shortened
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How To Use abridge In A Sentence

  • John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons.
  • She also subscribes to the talking book service run by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, where she can get complete, unabridged novels on audio tape.
  • It used to be that an unabridged dictionary and an encyclopedia would be kept accessible in middle-class homes, for settling questions of language or fact.
  • Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous. The Human Brain
  • It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.
  • Critics of Belgian policy contend that the right to enter is abridged in a number of instances. Refugees in the Age of Total War
  • In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
  • Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
  • This is the last week of classes so I am ending with a bang, or rather a "splat" - the class concludes with a great egg toss (one student today managed to successfully catch a raw egg with her face, much to the enjoyment of her peers) and a brief letter (abridged below) I wrote to all my students, concerning what I have learned in China this past year: Chengdu TOT (Training Of Trainees)
  • The problem is not that he has abridged the Bible - the very creation of Scripture required the editorial judgment of its redactors - but that he has attenuated it.
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