an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses
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Abridgment
/əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
Synonyms for "abridgment" (125 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (62)
Noun(12 words)
legal digestprecisshort-formshorteningstatute digestsummarizationsummarytext condensationtruncatingunword the remarksunwordingwaters down
Verb(1 words)
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5 entriesabridged editioncondensed editionshortened textsummary formtext condensation
Inflections
2 entriesDerivations
5 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 10 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπιτομή noun (shortened version)
Bulgarian
3 entries- резюме́ noun (shortened version)
- скъся́ване noun (shortened version)
- съкраще́ние noun (shortened version)
Dutch
1 entries- excerpt noun (shortened version)
German
3 entries- Auszug noun (shortened version)
- Kurzfassung noun (shortened version)
- Kurzform noun (shortened version)
Japanese
1 entries- 要約 noun (shortened version)
Latin
1 entries- breviārium noun (shortened version)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- abstrakt noun (shortened version)
- konsentrat noun (shortened version)
- oppsummering noun (shortened version)
- referat noun (shortened version)
Portuguese
2 entries- abreviação noun (shortened version)
- resumo noun (shortened version)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- giorrachadh noun (shortened version)
Spanish
2 entries- compendio noun (shortened version)
- versión abreviada noun (shortened version)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The article which embodied my researches having proved somewhat too long for its purpose, an abridgment of it only was inserted in the Encyclopædia.
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When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.
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What abridgment have you for this evening? What masque? what music?
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