adjective

• (of a piece of writing) having been shortened.

  ‘an abridged text of the speech’

  More example sentences

  • ‘an abridged version of this article can be found in the December edition of the magazine’

  Synonyms

  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

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