Definition of abridge in English:

abridge

verb əˈbrɪdʒəˈbrɪdʒ

[with object]

1often as adjective abridgedShorten (a book, film, speech, etc.) without losing the sense.
节略，缩短（书、电影、讲话等）
an abridged text of his speech
他讲话的节录。
Example sentencesExamples
- Unlike the Pappenheim version, the 1913 printing had a fine introduction, notes and index, albeit abridged and reworked under the editorship of Alfred Feilchenfeld.
- Because some of these emails are so long I have abridged several but provided a link to the full email.
- It's definitely not abridged in any way, shape or form.
- Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.
- Does it matter to you if the book you read is abridged or unabridged?
- He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
- The magic of the original isn't dulled in this carefully abridged volume of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway award.
- My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all.
- To begin with, the new publishers were content to reprint and to produce abridged volumes.
- Dharma has plans for a 300-page abridged version of the book.
- What follows is an edited and slightly abridged version of an interview conducted in London in October 2003.
- They are edited, abridged, and slightly simplified and represent a fraction of their original length.
- A one-volume abridged edition, the basis of this publication, was published in hardback in 1992.
- Edward E. Ericson, Jr., is a professor of English at Calvin College, and a Solzhenitsyn scholar who abridged The Gulag Archipelago in cooperation with the author.
- The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930.
- He has the full-length book, various abridged versions of the book, the video, the CD, the CD-ROM and the DVD.
- If Polanski's Twist can be faulted for anything, it's perhaps in presenting a version of the novel that feels ever so slightly abridged.
- The original six hour series had been abridged into two hours and you could feel that the pacing was rushed (something that was somehow avoided in the 1955 remake).
- Wonderfully constructed narratives, such as the patriarchal stories of Genesis, are reduced and abridged as to make many of them incomprehensible.
- To make things worse, commercially available audio books are usually abridged and twice as expensive as the print version.
Synonyms
shorten, cut, cut short/down, curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop, clip, pare down, prune
abbreviate, condense, contract, compress, reduce, decrease, diminish, shrink
summarize, give a summary of, sum up, abstract, give an abstract of, precis, give a precis of, synopsize, give a synopsis of, digest, give a digest of, outline, give an outline of, sketch, put in a nutshell, edit
rare epitomize
shortened, cut, cut short, cut down, concise, condensed, contracted, compressed, abbreviated, reduced, decreased, diminished, shrunk, curtailed, truncated, lessened, trimmed, cropped, clipped, pruned, pared down, stripped down, bare-bones, skeleton
summarized, summary, abstracted, precised, synoptic, synopsized, digest, outline, thumbnail, sketch, edited, essential
censored, bowdlerized, expurgated
informal potted
2Law
Curtail (a right or privilege)
〔律〕剥夺（权利，特权）
even the right to free speech can be abridged
Example sentencesExamples
- So I think we have an obligation to make sure that her rights are not in any way abridged.
- No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.
- I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged.
- For example, according to the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging free speech.
- The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code.

Derivatives

abridgeable

adjective

Even more profoundly than that, it presents a case which illustrates the radical idea that, contrary to a rarely articulated tenet of Western philosophy, there are aspects of our minds and souls which are not abridgeable with will power.

abridger

noun

Sherburn's estimation of the capacities of youth was generous in comparison; this more aggressive abridger turned the nineteen volumes of Richardson's three novels into a 232-page duodecimo.
Example sentencesExamples
- For a host of less well-known Scottish actors, and for the abridgers, including the writers of this article, Storyline has been an important source of work and income.
- Oh, and I also put to bed today the final few pages of an adapted-for-children-and-language-learners version of Autour de la Lune, by Jules Verne before the abridger got his hands on it.
- The BBC say that this will be done ‘with our usual sensitivity’ by ‘highly experienced abridgers’.
- He shows the hand of a skilled theatrical abridger at work, surgically excising flowery and purple ‘literary’ material, and reworking the remainder for the benefit of players and playgoers.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'deprive of'): from Old French abregier, from late Latin abbreviare 'cut short' (see abbreviate).

Rhymes

bridge, fridge, midge, ridge

Definition of abridge in US English:

abridge

verbəˈbrɪdʒəˈbrij

[with object]

1Shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense.
节略，缩短（书、电影、讲话等）
the introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel
Example sentencesExamples
- He has the full-length book, various abridged versions of the book, the video, the CD, the CD-ROM and the DVD.
- Because some of these emails are so long I have abridged several but provided a link to the full email.
- Does it matter to you if the book you read is abridged or unabridged?
- The magic of the original isn't dulled in this carefully abridged volume of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway award.
- A one-volume abridged edition, the basis of this publication, was published in hardback in 1992.
- The original six hour series had been abridged into two hours and you could feel that the pacing was rushed (something that was somehow avoided in the 1955 remake).
- He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
- Unlike the Pappenheim version, the 1913 printing had a fine introduction, notes and index, albeit abridged and reworked under the editorship of Alfred Feilchenfeld.
- To make things worse, commercially available audio books are usually abridged and twice as expensive as the print version.
- Dharma has plans for a 300-page abridged version of the book.
- What follows is an edited and slightly abridged version of an interview conducted in London in October 2003.
- If Polanski's Twist can be faulted for anything, it's perhaps in presenting a version of the novel that feels ever so slightly abridged.
- Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.
- The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930.
- Wonderfully constructed narratives, such as the patriarchal stories of Genesis, are reduced and abridged as to make many of them incomprehensible.
- To begin with, the new publishers were content to reprint and to produce abridged volumes.
- They are edited, abridged, and slightly simplified and represent a fraction of their original length.
- Edward E. Ericson, Jr., is a professor of English at Calvin College, and a Solzhenitsyn scholar who abridged The Gulag Archipelago in cooperation with the author.
- My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all.
- It's definitely not abridged in any way, shape or form.
Synonyms
shorten, cut, cut down, cut short, curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop, clip, pare down, prune
shortened, cut, cut short, cut down, concise, condensed, contracted, compressed, abbreviated, reduced, decreased, diminished, shrunk, curtailed, truncated, lessened, trimmed, cropped, clipped, pruned, pared down, stripped down, bare-bones, skeleton
2Law
Curtail (a right or privilege)
〔律〕剥夺（权利，特权）
even the right to free speech can be abridged
Example sentencesExamples
- The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code.
- So I think we have an obligation to make sure that her rights are not in any way abridged.
- No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.
- For example, according to the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging free speech.
- I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of’): from Old French abregier, from late Latin abbreviare ‘cut short’ (see abbreviate).

词汇	abridge
释义	Definition of abridge in English: abridge verb əˈbrɪdʒəˈbrɪdʒ [with object] 1often as adjective abridgedShorten (a book, film, speech, etc.) without losing the sense. 节略，缩短（书、电影、讲话等） an abridged text of his speech 他讲话的节录。 Example sentencesExamples Unlike the Pappenheim version, the 1913 printing had a fine introduction, notes and index, albeit abridged and reworked under the editorship of Alfred Feilchenfeld. Because some of these emails are so long I have abridged several but provided a link to the full email. It's definitely not abridged in any way, shape or form. Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand. Does it matter to you if the book you read is abridged or unabridged? He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles. The magic of the original isn't dulled in this carefully abridged volume of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway award. My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all. To begin with, the new publishers were content to reprint and to produce abridged volumes. Dharma has plans for a 300-page abridged version of the book. What follows is an edited and slightly abridged version of an interview conducted in London in October 2003. They are edited, abridged, and slightly simplified and represent a fraction of their original length. A one-volume abridged edition, the basis of this publication, was published in hardback in 1992. Edward E. Ericson, Jr., is a professor of English at Calvin College, and a Solzhenitsyn scholar who abridged The Gulag Archipelago in cooperation with the author. The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930. He has the full-length book, various abridged versions of the book, the video, the CD, the CD-ROM and the DVD. If Polanski's Twist can be faulted for anything, it's perhaps in presenting a version of the novel that feels ever so slightly abridged. The original six hour series had been abridged into two hours and you could feel that the pacing was rushed (something that was somehow avoided in the 1955 remake). Wonderfully constructed narratives, such as the patriarchal stories of Genesis, are reduced and abridged as to make many of them incomprehensible. To make things worse, commercially available audio books are usually abridged and twice as expensive as the print version. Synonyms shorten, cut, cut short/down, curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop, clip, pare down, prune abbreviate, condense, contract, compress, reduce, decrease, diminish, shrink summarize, give a summary of, sum up, abstract, give an abstract of, precis, give a precis of, synopsize, give a synopsis of, digest, give a digest of, outline, give an outline of, sketch, put in a nutshell, edit rare epitomize shortened, cut, cut short, cut down, concise, condensed, contracted, compressed, abbreviated, reduced, decreased, diminished, shrunk, curtailed, truncated, lessened, trimmed, cropped, clipped, pruned, pared down, stripped down, bare-bones, skeleton summarized, summary, abstracted, precised, synoptic, synopsized, digest, outline, thumbnail, sketch, edited, essential censored, bowdlerized, expurgated informal potted 2Law Curtail (a right or privilege) 〔律〕剥夺（权利，特权） even the right to free speech can be abridged Example sentencesExamples So I think we have an obligation to make sure that her rights are not in any way abridged. No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law. I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged. For example, according to the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging free speech. The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code. Derivatives abridgeable adjective Even more profoundly than that, it presents a case which illustrates the radical idea that, contrary to a rarely articulated tenet of Western philosophy, there are aspects of our minds and souls which are not abridgeable with will power. abridger noun Sherburn's estimation of the capacities of youth was generous in comparison; this more aggressive abridger turned the nineteen volumes of Richardson's three novels into a 232-page duodecimo. Example sentencesExamples For a host of less well-known Scottish actors, and for the abridgers, including the writers of this article, Storyline has been an important source of work and income. Oh, and I also put to bed today the final few pages of an adapted-for-children-and-language-learners version of Autour de la Lune, by Jules Verne before the abridger got his hands on it. The BBC say that this will be done ‘with our usual sensitivity’ by ‘highly experienced abridgers’. He shows the hand of a skilled theatrical abridger at work, surgically excising flowery and purple ‘literary’ material, and reworking the remainder for the benefit of players and playgoers. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'deprive of'): from Old French abregier, from late Latin abbreviare 'cut short' (see abbreviate). Rhymes bridge, fridge, midge, ridge Definition of abridge in US English: abridge verbəˈbrɪdʒəˈbrij [with object] 1Shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense. 节略，缩短（书、电影、讲话等） the introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel Example sentencesExamples He has the full-length book, various abridged versions of the book, the video, the CD, the CD-ROM and the DVD. Because some of these emails are so long I have abridged several but provided a link to the full email. Does it matter to you if the book you read is abridged or unabridged? The magic of the original isn't dulled in this carefully abridged volume of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway award. A one-volume abridged edition, the basis of this publication, was published in hardback in 1992. The original six hour series had been abridged into two hours and you could feel that the pacing was rushed (something that was somehow avoided in the 1955 remake). He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles. Unlike the Pappenheim version, the 1913 printing had a fine introduction, notes and index, albeit abridged and reworked under the editorship of Alfred Feilchenfeld. To make things worse, commercially available audio books are usually abridged and twice as expensive as the print version. Dharma has plans for a 300-page abridged version of the book. What follows is an edited and slightly abridged version of an interview conducted in London in October 2003. If Polanski's Twist can be faulted for anything, it's perhaps in presenting a version of the novel that feels ever so slightly abridged. Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand. The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930. Wonderfully constructed narratives, such as the patriarchal stories of Genesis, are reduced and abridged as to make many of them incomprehensible. To begin with, the new publishers were content to reprint and to produce abridged volumes. They are edited, abridged, and slightly simplified and represent a fraction of their original length. Edward E. Ericson, Jr., is a professor of English at Calvin College, and a Solzhenitsyn scholar who abridged The Gulag Archipelago in cooperation with the author. My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all. It's definitely not abridged in any way, shape or form. Synonyms shorten, cut, cut down, cut short, curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop, clip, pare down, prune shortened, cut, cut short, cut down, concise, condensed, contracted, compressed, abbreviated, reduced, decreased, diminished, shrunk, curtailed, truncated, lessened, trimmed, cropped, clipped, pruned, pared down, stripped down, bare-bones, skeleton 2Law Curtail (a right or privilege) 〔律〕剥夺（权利，特权） even the right to free speech can be abridged Example sentencesExamples The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code. So I think we have an obligation to make sure that her rights are not in any way abridged. No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law. For example, according to the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging free speech. I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of’): from Old French abregier, from late Latin abbreviare ‘cut short’ (see abbreviate).
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