Abridged

English

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Adjective

Abridged (comparative more Abridged, superlative most Abridged)

1. cut or shortened, especially of a literary work

   The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length.

Related terms

• unabridged

Thesaurus

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

Translations

cut or shortened, especially of a literary work

Danish: forkortet (da) Finnish: lyhennetty (fi), supistettu (fi) French: abrégée (fr) German: gekürzt (de), verkürtzt (de) Italian: abbreviata (it)

Macedonian: скратен (mk) (skráten) m. Norwegian: avkortet (no), avkorta (no) Spanish: abreviada (es) Swedish: förkortad (sv)

Verb

abridged

1. Simple past tense and past participle of abridge.

Anagrams

• bigraded, brigaded