The student decided to abridge his paper by taking out unnecessary details.
Source: tatoeba (1925)
Abridge
//əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "abridge" (122 found)
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7 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
7 entriesdistinct from
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
94 translations across 24 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- beknopter maak verb (to make shorter)
- beperk verb (to make shorter)
- verkort verb (to make shorter)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- συντέμνω verb (to make shorter)
Arabic
1 entries- قَصَّر verb (to make shorter)
Belarusian
4 entries- скараці́ць verb (to make shorter)
- скараці́ць verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- скарача́ць verb (to make shorter)
- скарача́ць verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Bulgarian
4 entries- лишавам verb (to deprive)
- ограничавам verb (to deprive)
- скъсявам verb (to make shorter)
- съкращавам verb (to make shorter)
Czech
2 entries- krátit verb (to make shorter)
- zkrátit verb (to make shorter)
Danish
4 entries- forkorte verb (to make shorter)
- forkorte verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- sammendrage verb (to make shorter)
- sammendrage verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Dutch
4 entries- beknotten verb (to deprive)
- bekorten verb (to make shorter)
- beperken verb (to make shorter)
- beroven verb (to deprive)
Finnish
4 entries- lyhentää verb (to make shorter)
- lyhentää verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- riistää verb (to deprive)
- supistaa verb (to make shorter)
French
2 entries- abréger verb (to make shorter)
- abréger verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
German
3 entries- kürzen verb (to make shorter)
- verkürzen verb (to make shorter)
- verkürzen verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Hungarian
4 entries- eltulajdonít verb (to deprive)
- kurtít verb (to make shorter)
- megkurtít verb (to make shorter)
- megrövidít verb (to make shorter)
Ido
1 entries- abreviar verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Irish
1 entries- giorraigh verb (to make shorter)
Italian
4 entries- abbreviare verb (to make shorter)
- abbreviare verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- accorciare verb (to make shorter)
- limitare verb (to deprive)
Latin
1 entries- abbreviō verb (to make shorter)
Māori
2 entries- whakapoto verb (to make shorter)
- whakapoto verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- avkorte verb (to deprive)
- forkorte verb (to make shorter)
- forkorte verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- sammendra verb (to make shorter)
Portuguese
4 entries- abreviar verb (to make shorter)
- abreviar verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- despojar verb (to deprive)
- encurtar verb (to make shorter)
Russian
4 entries- ограни́чивать verb (to deprive)
- сокраща́ть verb (to make shorter)
- сокраща́ть verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- сумми́ровать verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- giorraich verb (to make shorter)
- giorraich verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- skratiti verb (to make shorter)
- skraćívati verb (to make shorter)
- skraćívati verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- скраћи́вати verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Spanish
4 entries- abreviar verb (to make shorter)
- abreviar verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- compendiar verb (to make shorter)
- condensar verb (to make shorter)
Ukrainian
4 entries- скоро́чувати verb (to make shorter)
- скоро́чувати verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
- скороти́ти verb (to make shorter)
- скороти́ти verb (to shorten or contract by using fewer words)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Paul Levinson said that any attempts to abridge that right — either by governments or through commercial pressure from web providers — will ultimately fail.
Source: tatoeba (11197864)
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.
Source: tatoeba (11200331)
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."
Source: tatoeba (11215729)
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