abbreviate, reduce, foreshorten, shorten, cut, contract, abr., abscind, decurtate, truncate, more...

curtail, condense, abbreviate

abbreviate, summarize, condense, truncate, shorten, cut, curtail, more...

to shorten,   to make short,   strip away rights,   shorten a document,   make less wordy,   condense copy,   shorten a passage,   further shorten,   shorten distance,   shorten a word