English > abridge: 2 senses > verb 1, changeMeaning | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Model | They won't abridge the story |
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Synonyms | foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce |
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Narrower | bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
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digest, condense, concentrate | make more concise |
Broader | decrease, lessen, minify | make smaller |
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Opposite | elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate | add details, as to an account or idea |
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Similar to | edit, cut, edit out | cut and assemble the components of |
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Spanish | abreviar, acortar, compendiar, condensar, contraer, encoger, reducir, resumir, simplificar |
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Catalan | abreujar, contraure, contreure, encongir, escurçar |
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Nouns | abridgement | a shortened version of a written work |
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abridger | one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work |