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abridge(verb) Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. Synonyms: abbreviate, shorten, contract, reduce, cutUsage: I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an underground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative.
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Abridge:
Verb:
Shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense.
"The introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel"
Synonyms :
shorten
cut
cut short/down
curtail
truncate
lessen
trim
crop
clip
pare down
prune
Oxford Dictionary
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abridge
(verb) Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
Synonyms: abbreviate, shorten, contract, reduce, cut
Usage: I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an underground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative.
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Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
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Adyl Mouhei wrote:Abridge:
Verb:
Shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense.
"The introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel"
Synonyms :
shorten
cut
cut short/down
curtail
truncate
lessen
trim
crop
clip
pare down
prune
Oxford Dictionary
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