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Abbreviate   Listen
verb
Abbreviate  v. t.  (past & past part. abbreviated; pres. part. abbreviating)  
1.
To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. "It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off."
2.
(Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.





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"Abbreviate" Quotes from Famous Books



... must be less particular," she said, "to give so many and frequent explanations of my feelings. By this time you can pretty well imagine them, and my story is likely to be too long, unless I abbreviate. ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor


Words linked to "Abbreviate" :   edit, contract, foreshorten, abbreviator, reduce, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expand, minify, concentrate, digest, castrate, expurgate


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