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UK
/ˌʌnɐbɹˈɪdʒd/
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[ US /ˌənəˈbɹɪdʒd/ ]
[ US /ˌənəˈbɹɪdʒd/ ]
NOUN
- a dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary
ADJECTIVE
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(used of texts) not shortened
an unabridged novel
How To Use unabridged In A Sentence
- The word prove is usually reserved for mathematics: “to verify the correctness or validity of by mathematical demonstration or arithmetical proof” Random House Unabridged Dictionary. The Sacred Promise
- A rough guide: modern unabridged dictionaries are usually the size of quartos; most textbooks are octavos; popular paperbacks are often duodecimos.
- You'll find it in Karrada - whether it's a gold bracelet or fuzzy slippers or the complete, unabridged collection of the late Al-Hakeem's religious lectures on CD.
- Rachmaninov, who put up with truncations to most of his works, absolutely refused to shorten the concerto and played it complete and unabridged in a state of tangible tension.
- The list ran the gamut from Aristotle to Zen, from The Catcher in the Rye to The Cat in the Hat, from epic novels to unabridged dictionaries.
- Stephen Wilson's impressive tome that weighs in at 1024 pages invokes immediate parallels to other information sources in book form, such as the Yellow Pages or any unabridged dictionary.
- Perhaps the best-known argument for this view is found the unabridged edition of an otherwise excellent book, The Sovereignty of God, by A.
- Johnson and Patterson, both English professors, edited a new unabridged edition of Rural Hours and some of Cooper's other writings as well as Essays on Nature and Landscape.
- What follows is probably a gross violation of copyright law, since it's the whole obituary, complete and unabridged.
- 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.