abridged
adjective
[ əˈbrɪdʒd ]
• (of a piece of writing) having been shortened.
• "an abridged text of the speech"
Similar:
shortened,
cut,
cut short,
cut down,
concise,
condensed,
contracted,
compressed,
abbreviated,
reduced,
decreased,
diminished,
shrunk,
curtailed,
truncated,
lessened,
trimmed,
cropped,
clipped,
pruned,
pared down,
stripped down,
bare-bones,
skeleton,
summarized,
summary,
abstracted,
precised,
synoptic,
synopsized,
digest,
outline,
thumbnail,
sketch,
edited,
essential,
censored,
bowdlerized,
expurgated,
potted,
abridge
verb
• shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense.
• "the introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel"
Similar:
shorten,
cut,
cut short/down,
curtail,
truncate,
lessen,
trim,
crop,
clip,
pare down,
prune,
abbreviate,
condense,
contract,
compress,
reduce,
decrease,
diminish,
shrink,
summarize,
give a summary of,
sum up,
abstract,
give an abstract of,
precis,
give a precis of,
synopsize,
give a synopsis of,
digest,
give a digest of,
outline,
give an outline of,
sketch,
put in a nutshell,
edit,
epitomize,
• curtail (a right or privilege).
• "even the right to free speech can be abridged"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of’): from Old French abregier, from late Latin abbreviare ‘cut short’ (see abbreviate).
