We abbreviate Sunday to Sun.
Source: tatoeba (281877)
Abbreviate
//əˈbɹiː.vi.eɪt//
Synonyms for "abbreviate" (104 found)
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12 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
96 translations across 48 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- afkort verb (to make shorter)
Albanian
1 entries- shkurtoj verb (to make shorter)
Arabic
1 entries- إِخْتَصَرَ verb (to make shorter)
Armenian
2 entries- կրճատել verb (to make shorter)
- հապավել verb (to make shorter)
Belarusian
2 entries- скараці́ць verb (to make shorter)
- скарача́ць verb (to make shorter)
Bulgarian
3 entries- скъсявам verb (to make shorter)
- съкраща́вам verb (to make shorter)
- съкращавам verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Catalan
2 entries- abreujar verb (to make shorter)
- abreviar verb (to make shorter)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 缩写 verb (to make shorter)
- 缩略 verb (to make shorter)
Cornish
1 entries- berrhe verb (to make shorter)
Czech
2 entries- zkracovat verb (to make shorter)
- zkrátit verb (to make shorter)
Danish
1 entries- forkorte verb (to make shorter)
Dutch
4 entries- afkorten verb (to make shorter)
- inkorten verb (to make shorter)
- verkorten verb (to make shorter)
- versimpelen verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Esperanto
1 entries- mallongigi verb (to make shorter)
Estonian
1 entries- lühendama verb (to make shorter)
Finnish
3 entries- lyhennetty adj (abbreviated, abridged)
- lyhentynyt adj (biology: having one part relatively shorter)
- lyhentää verb (to make shorter)
French
1 entries- abréger verb (to make shorter)
German
3 entries- abkürzen verb (to make shorter)
- kürzen verb (to make shorter)
- kürzen verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Greek
1 entries- συντομεύω verb (to make shorter)
Hindi
2 entries- लघु करना verb (to make shorter)
- संक्षिप्तकरना verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Icelandic
2 entries- skammstafa verb (to make shorter)
- stytta verb (to make shorter)
Ido
1 entries- abreviar verb (to make shorter)
Indonesian
3 entries- memendekkan verb (to make shorter)
- mempersingkat verb (to make shorter)
- menyingkatkan verb (to make shorter)
Interlingua
1 entries- abbreviar verb (to make shorter)
Irish
1 entries- giorraigh verb (to make shorter)
Italian
2 entries- abbreviare verb (to make shorter)
- accorciare verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Japanese
4 entries- 略す verb (to make shorter)
- 略称する verb (to make shorter)
- 省略する verb (to make shorter)
- 短縮する verb (to make shorter)
Korean
4 entries- 단축(短縮)하다 verb (to make shorter)
- 생략(省略)하다 verb (to make shorter)
- 약(略)하다 verb (to make shorter)
- 약생(略省)하다) verb (to make shorter)
Latin
1 entries- abbreviō verb (to make shorter)
Macedonian
1 entries- скратува verb (to make shorter)
Manx
4 entries- aagherr verb (to make shorter)
- giar verb (to make shorter)
- girree verb (to make shorter)
- jean ny s'girrey verb (to make shorter)
Māori
1 entries- whakapoto verb (to make shorter)
Norman
1 entries- rap'tichi verb (to make shorter)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- abbreviere verb (to make shorter)
- forkorte verb (to make shorter)
Persian
1 entries- مختصر کردن verb (to make shorter)
Polish
2 entries- skracać verb (to make shorter)
- skrócić verb (to make shorter)
Portuguese
4 entries- abreviado adj (abbreviated, abridged)
- encurtado adj (abbreviated, abridged)
- abreviar verb (to make shorter)
- abreviar verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Romanian
3 entries- abrevia verb (to make shorter)
- scurta verb (to make shorter)
- simplifica verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Russian
2 entries- сократи́ть verb (to make shorter)
- сокраща́ть verb (to make shorter)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- giorraich verb (to make shorter)
Spanish
2 entries- abreviar verb (to make shorter)
- simplificar verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Swedish
2 entries- förkorta verb (to make shorter)
- förkorta verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Tamil
3 entries- சுருக்கு adj (abbreviated, abridged)
- அடக்கு verb (to make shorter)
- சுருக்கு verb (to make shorter)
Telugu
1 entries- సంక్షేపించు verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Turkish
2 entries- ihtisar etmek verb (to make shorter)
- kısaltmak verb (to make shorter)
Ukrainian
2 entries- скоро́чувати verb (to make shorter)
- скороти́ти verb (to make shorter)
Vietnamese
3 entries- tương đối ngắn adj (biology: having one part relatively shorter)
- rút gọn verb (to reduce to lower terms)
- ước lược verb (to reduce to lower terms)
Volapük
1 entries- brefükön verb (to make shorter)
Welsh
3 entries- byrhau verb (to make shorter)
- cwtogi verb (to make shorter)
- talfyrru verb (to make shorter)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
I abbreviate my name.
Source: tatoeba (10014865)
But it is one Thing, to Abbreuiate by Contracting, Another by Cutting off: […]
Source: wiktionary
But as delivery schedules have dwindled into hours, even the gigantic warehouse full of stuff in a central place such as the triangle is proving insufficient. Now, companies also need smaller distribution centres around the country, to respond rapidly to orders and to abbreviate the last mile as much as possible.
Source: wiktionary
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