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adj. - (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting.

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Usage examples (35)
  • An abridged version
  • I don't think most of these books are available in abridged audio books format.
  • The manuscript so abridged, is submitted to you, with the earnest prayer, that if published, it may subserve the cause of truth and good citizenship.
  • There are none of the shortcuts of the forties and fifties, though one sees the font of what survives, in abridged form in many later projects of that period.
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