Abridge

The student decided to abridge his paper by taking out unnecessary details.

Paul Levinson said that any attempts to abridge that right — either by governments or through commercial pressure from web providers — will ultimately fail.

The legislation, “an act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution,” outlawed practices and procedures that “deny or abridge” the right to vote based on race or color.

The Human Rights Report also states that "the regime continued to abridge the right of citizens to change their government and committed other severe human rights abuses."

She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity.

The bridegroom, perceiving his condition, abridged the visit […]

It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil. He abridged his Dictionary. He proposed to bring out an edition of Shakespeare by subscription, and many subscribers sent in their names and laid down their money; but he soon found the task so little to his taste that he turned to more attractive employments.

Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness."

He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.