Usually means: Reduces content while preserving essence.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word abridges:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. abridges: Merriam-Webster
  2. abridges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abridges: Vocabulary.com
  4. abridges: Wordnik
  5. abridges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. abridges: Wiktionary
  7. abridges: Dictionary.com
  8. abridges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. abridges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abridges: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abridges: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Abridge)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
verb:  (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
verb:  (transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
verb:  (transitive) Cut short; truncate.
verb:  (transitive) To curtail.
noun:  A village in Essex, England
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