Abridger
21shortness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of length Nouns 1. shortness, brevity, briefness, conciseness; shortening, abbreviation, abridgement, retrenchment, curtailment; compression, condensation, initialism, contraction; reduction,… …
22abridge — verb 1》 shorten (a text or film) without losing the sense. 2》 Law curtail (a right or privilege). Derivatives abridgeable adjective abridgement (also chiefly US abridgment) noun abridger noun Origin ME: from OFr. abregier, from late L …
23epitomist — n. Abridger, epitomizer, summarizer, writer of an epitome …
24censor — n 1. examiner, reader, inspector, reviewer; expurgator, bowdlerizer, abridger, amender; Mrs. Grundy. 2. faultfinder, critic, criticaster, Inf. knocker; carper, complainer, caviler; castigator, chastiser, censurer, reprimander, chider, scold,… …
25abridge — /əˈbrɪdʒ / (say uh brij) verb (t) (abridged, abridging) 1. to shorten by condensation or omission, or both; rewrite or reconstruct on a smaller scale. 2. to lessen; diminish. 3. to deprive; cut off. {Middle English abrege(n), from Old French… …
26abridge — ► VERB ▪ shorten (a text or film). DERIVATIVES abridgement (also abridgment) noun abridger noun. ORIGIN Old French abregier, from Latin abbreviare abbreviate …
27abridgement — abridge ► VERB ▪ shorten (a text or film). DERIVATIVES abridgement (also abridgment) noun abridger noun. ORIGIN Old French abregier, from Latin abbreviare abbreviate …
28abridgment — abridge ► VERB ▪ shorten (a text or film). DERIVATIVES abridgement (also abridgment) noun abridger noun. ORIGIN Old French abregier, from Latin abbreviare abbreviate …
29abridge — [ə brij′] vt. abridged, abridging [ME abregen < OFr abregier < LL abbreviare, ABBREVIATE] 1. to reduce in scope, extent, etc.; shorten 2. to shorten (a piece of writing) while preserving its substance; condense 3. to lessen or curtail… …
30abridge — v.tr. 1 shorten (a book, film, etc.) by using fewer words or making deletions. 2 curtail (liberty). Derivatives: abridgable adj. abridger n. Etymology: ME f. OF abreg(i)er f. LL abbreviare ABBREVIATE …
