abridge.
To deprive; to cut off.
Meaning & usage
To deprive; to cut off.
To debar from.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
Cut short; truncate.
To curtail.
He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English abreggen, abregge, abrigge (“curtail, lessen”), from Old French abregier, abreger, from Late Latin abbreviō, abbreviāre (“make brief”). Doublet of abbreviate.
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