Abridge

Definition: Abridge

Abridge

Verb

1. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".

Date "abridge" was first used: some time around 1303. (references)

Note: Abridge \A*bridge"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Abridged; present participle verb or noun Abridging.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Oliver Cromwell. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Literature	Abridge is not formed from the word bridge; but comes from the Latin abbreviare, to shorten, from brevis (short), through the French abréger (to shorten). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Abridge

Synonyms: abbreviate (v), contract (v), cut (v), foreshorten (v), reduce (v), shorten (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Compendium	Verb: abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract; n.
Conciseness	Verb: be concise; Adjective: condense; abridge; abstract; come to the point.
Nonincrease, Decrease	Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.
Shortness	Verb: be short; Adjective: render short; Adjective: shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress; (contract); epitomize.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Abridge

English words defined with "abridge": Abregge, Abridging ♦ Condensing engine ♦ Razee. (references)

Specialty definitions using "abridge": Audley. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
Amendment to US Constitution	1795-2008	No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Uruguay	The Constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the press; however, the authorities sometimes limit freedom of the press and the authorities may abridge these rights if persons are deemed to be inciting violence or "insulting the nation." All elements of the political spectrum freely express their viewpoints in both print and broadcast media. (references)
Economic History	Poland	Ownership may be restricted only by law and only to the extent to which it does not abridge the essence of the right of ownership." In the case of land, a second form of title is the perpetual lease, under which the lease holder generally controls the property for 40 to 99 years, and which can be extended for up to 99 additional years. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Abridge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Abridge" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	86.67%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	13.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Expression using "abridge": abridge smb.'s rights. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "abridge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		verminder (abate, decrease, diminish, drop, fall, lessen). (various references)

Albanian		shkurtoj (abbreviate, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), pakësoj (abate, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), përmbledh (abstract, brief, collect, compress, condense, precis, recapitulate, sum up, summarize). (various references)

Arabic		‏لخص (abstract, brief, condense, digest, epitomize, recap, recapitulate, sum, summarize), ‏قصر (become shorter, brevity, castle, chateau, contract, court, fragility, limit, limitation, mansion, mortar, narrowness, palace, reduction, restriction, shorten, shortness, smallness), ‏حرم (ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, deprive, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, geld, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, restrain, rob, sacred, sanctuary, starve, suppress, wife), ‏إختصر (abbreviate, analyse, analyze, boil down, clip, curtail, cut short, limit, nick, outline, reduce, shorten, syncopate). (various references)

Bulgarian		съкращавам (abbreviate, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, slash, take off, terminate, truncate), лишавам (bereave, bereft, denude, drain, drain of, pinch, shear, starve). (various references)

Chinese		� 节 (Abridged, Abridging). (various references)

Czech		zkrátit (abbreviate, Bob, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut short, dock, reduce, shorten), zestruènit (compress, condense, epitomize). (various references)

Danish		forkorte (abbreviate, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Dutch		afkorten (abbreviate, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Esperanto		malplilongigi (abbreviate, curtail, shorten), malpliigi (abate, decrease, lessen), mallongigi (abbreviate, shorten), limigi (confine, limit, restrict). (various references)

Farsi		مختصرکردن (Abbreviate, Shorten, Simplify), کوتاه کردن (Abbreviate, Curtail, Dock, Short, Shorten, Stag). (various references)

Finnish		typistää (crop, cut short, dock, maim, mutilate), supistaa (abbreviate, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut down, limit, reduce, restrict), lyhentää (abbreviate, curtail, cut short, pay off, shorten). (various references)

French		abréger (abate, abbreviate, abstract). (various references)

Frisian		ferkoartsje (abbreviate, curtail, shorten), bekoartsje (abbreviate, curtail, shorten). (various references)

German		kürzen (ax, axe, cancel, curtail, cut, dock, prune, reduce, retrench, shorten, take up, to abbreviate, to abridge, to clip, to curtail, to shorten), verkürzen (abbreviate, curtail, cut, cut down, cut short, decrease, end, foreshorten, narrow, reduce, shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to shorten), abkürzen (abbreviate, be cut, curtail, cut short, shorten, take a short cut, to abbreviate, to cut short, to shorten). (various references)

Greek		συντομεύω (abbreviate). (various references)

Hebrew		לכוץ (narrow), ל�"פחית (abate, cut down, decrease, devaluate, diminish, lower, reduce, remit, step down, subtract, take away). (various references)

Hungarian		rövidít (abbreviate, curtail, shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to take a short cut). (various references)

Indonesian		mengurangi (attenuate, curtail, deaden, deduct, detract, diminish, relieve, substract), memperpendek (shorten), memendekkan (curtail, shorten), membatasi (border, bound, curb, curtail, define, form the border of, limit, restrict). (various references)

Italian		abbreviare (abbreviate, curtail, cut short, shorten), accorciare (abbreviate, become shorten, curtail, shorten), riassumere (abstract, brief, digest, epitomise, epitomize, reassume, recapitulate, re-engage, sum up, summarise, summarize, take on again), compendiare (abstract, epitomise, epitomize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		端折る (to abridge, to tuck up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はしおる (to abridge, to tuck up), はしょる (to abridge, to tuck up). (various references)

Korean		축소하십시�". (various references)

Malay		singkat (abbreviate, curtail, shorten), menyingkat (abbreviate, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Manx		girraghey (abbreviate, abridgement, abridging, contract, foreshorten, shorten, shortening), giarrey (abbreviate, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Norwegian		forminske (abate, decrease, diminish, lessen). (various references)

Papiamen		abreviá (abbreviate, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Pig Latin		abridgeay.(various references)

Polish		skrócić. (various references)

Portuguese		resumir (abbreviate, abstract, boil down, brief, compact, compress, condense, digest, epizootic, extract, precise, resume, shorten, sum up, summarize, wind up), limitar (bind, border, bound, cabin, check, circumscribe, condition, confine, contain, cramp, define, dock, gaolbird, hedge, jailbird, limit, narrow, number, put a lid on, qualify, restrict, retrench, scant, shorten, specialize, terminate, tie, verge). (various references)

Romanian		prescurta (abbreviate, condense, curtail, reduce, riddle, shorten), abrevia (abbreviate, contract, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Russian		сокращать (abbreviate, blue pencil, blue-pencil, condense, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, divide out, dock, epitomize, pare, pare away, razee, reduce, shorten, shortens). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uskratiti (debar, forbid, interdict), skratiti (abbreviate, curtail, cut short, detruncate, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, syncopate, telescope, truncate), sažimati (compress, resume, sum, sum up), sažeti (abstract, compress, condense, epitomize, summarize), lišiti (cut off, deny, deprave, deprive, divest, free, rid, rob, strip). (various references)

Spanish		abreviar (abbreviate, be quick, boil down, curtail, cut short, shorten, to explode), limitar (confine, keep down, limit, pale, qualify, restrict, stint, tie, tie down, wind down), compendiar (abbreviate, epitomize, summarize), acortar (abbreviate, clip, curtail, cut back, cut short, shorten, turn up), extractar (abstract, extract, yank). (various references)

Swedish		förkorta (abbreviate, curtail, cut, encapsulate, reduce, short circuit, shorten, telescope). (various references)

Turkish		mahrum etmek (con smb. out of, debar, debar from, deny, deprive, detain, dispossess, divest, divest smb. of, lose, mulct, oust, shear, spoil, starve, stint), kisaltmak (abbreviate, curtail, shorten), kısmak (attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), kısaltmak (abbreviate, cancel, clip, compress, curtail, cut down, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, retrench, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up), özetlemek (abstract, boil down, brief, compress, encapsulate, epitomize, incapsulate, outline, precis, reduce, resume, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up). (various references)

Ukranian		скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), обмежувати (astrict, bail, bound, circumscribe, confine, cramp, enclose, limit, narrow, pinch on, restrain, restrict, stint, straiten, terminate), позбавляти (bare, denude, deprive, despoil, divest, oust, purge, reave, release). (various references)

Welsh		talfyrru (abbreviate), cwtogi (curtail, shorten), byr.hau (abbreviate, shorten). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abbreviare, arta, artabitur, artabuntur, artavitque, arto, artor, breviabuntur, breviandi, brevians, breviantes, breviare, breviasset, breviata, breviati, breviatum, breviavit, curtare. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	abbreviare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "abridge": abridged, abridgement, abridgements, abridger, abridgers, abridges. (additional references)
	Words containing "abridge": unabridged. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Abridge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberargie, abride, abrige, abriged, Agbrigg, Alberigo, Albridge, Alridge, Atridae, Babbidge, bardge, Bavidge, eridge, Erridge, Ogridge. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "abridge" (pronounced ubri"j)
4	-b r i" j	bridge.
3	-r i" j	fridge, ridge.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: brigade.
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-r"
	-1 letter: abider, badger, barged, begird, bridge, garbed.
	-2 letters: abide, aider, aired, ardeb, badge, barde, bared, barge, beard, bider, braid, bread, bride, deair, debar, dirge, gibed, giber, grade, gride, irade, rabid, raged, rebid, redia, ridge.
	-3 letters: abed, abri, aged, ager, aide, arid, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, berg, bide, bier, bird, brad, brae, brag, bred, brie, brig, darb, dare, dear, dire, drab, drag, dreg, drib, egad, gadi, gaed, garb, gear, gibe, gied, gird, grab, grad, grid, idea, ired, rage, ragi, raid, read, ride.
	-4 letters: age, aid, air, arb, are, bad, bag, bar, bed, beg, bid, big, bra, dab, dag, deb, dib, die, dig, ear, era, erg, gab, gad, gae, gar, ged, gib, gid, gie, ire, rad, rag, reb, red, reg, rei, ria, rib, rid, rig.
	-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, ag, ai, ar, ba, be, bi, de, ed, er, id, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-r"
	+1 letter: abridged, abridger, abridges, bearding, bigarade, birdcage, breading, brigaded, brigades.
	+2 letters: abridgers, badgering, bargained, bedraping, bigarades, birdcages, brigadier, debarking, debarring, gabardine, gaberdine.
	+3 letters: abridgment, arbitraged, bartending, bedwarfing, bighearted, biodegrade, bridgeable, bridgehead, brigadiers, brigandage, brigandine, broadening, budgerigar, drawbridge, gabardines, gaberdines, reboarding, redbaiting, ringbarked, unabridged.
	+4 letters: abridgement, abridgments, becowarding, bedarkening, bediapering, bedraggling, bespreading, biodegraded, biodegrades, bridgeheads, brigandages, brigandines, budgerigars, burglarized, drawbridges, drumbeating, fingerboard, gingerbread, grandbabies, harbingered, keyboarding.
	+5 letters: abridgements, bigheartedly, biodegrading, breadwinning, childbearing, deliberating, descrambling, diagrammable, disagreeable, disagreeably, disembarking, drumbeatings, fiberglassed, fingerboards, gingerbreads, gingerbready, outbargained, straightbred, subirrigated, unbridgeable.
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