abridged

4 definitions found

abridged - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  abridged \abridged\ adj.
     1. 1 shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts:
        an abridged version [Narrower terms: half-length]
        unabridged, full-length
  
     Syn: condensed
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

  Abridge \A*bridge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abridged; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Abridging.] [OE. abregen, OF. abregier, F.
     abr['e]ger, fr. L. abbreviare; ad + brevis short. See Brief
     and cf. Abbreviate.]
     1. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to
        diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge
        power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his
        visit." --Smollett.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her
              train from state to necessity.        --Fuller.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining
        the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a
        history or dictionary.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by
        from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
        [1913 Webster]

abridged - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  abridged
      adj 1: (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an
             abridged version" [ant: unabridged]

abridged - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "abridged":
     Spartan, abbreviated, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief,
     brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
     compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
     curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
     epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
     pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
     sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
     snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
     to the point, trimmed, truncated