"Abridged" is a word in ENGLISH
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I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")
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An abridgment.
Read the complete definitionTo make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
Read the complete definitionAbbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Read the complete definitionThe result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
Read the complete definitionAn abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
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Read the complete definitionTo make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power …
Read the complete definitionTo shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a …
Read the complete definitionTo deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
Read the complete definitionTo reduce or contract; usually spoken of written language
Read the complete definitionOne who abridges.
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Read the complete definitionThe act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures …
Read the complete definitionAn epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
Read the complete definitionThat which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.
Read the complete definitionAn epitome or com.-pendlum of another and larger work, wherein the principal ideas of the larger wofk are summarily contained. …
Read the complete definitionThe right of the court to reduce the damages in certain cases. Vide Brooke, tit. "Abridgment.
Read the complete definitionTo epitomize; to abridge.
Read the complete definitionTo act upon; Influence; change; enlarge or abridge. This word is ofteu used in the sense of acting injuriously upon …
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