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abridged 音标拼音: [əbr'ɪdʒd] adj. 省略的 省略的 abridged adj 1: ( used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; " an abridged version" [ ant: { unabridged}] abridged \ abridged\ adj. 1. 1 shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts: an abridged version [ Narrower terms: { half- length}] { unabridged, full- length} Syn: condensed [ WordNet 1. 5 PJC]
Abridge \ A* bridge"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Abridged}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Abridging}.] [ OE. abregen, OF. abregier, F. abr[' e] ger, fr. L. abbreviare; ad brevis short. See { Brief} and cf. { Abbreviate}.] 1. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. " The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." -- Smollett. [ 1913 Webster] She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights. [ 1913 Webster] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " abridged": Spartan, abbreviated, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short- cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated |
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