abridge

IPA: ʌbrˈɪdʒ

(transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
(transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
(transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
(transitive) Cut short; truncate.
(transitive) To curtail.

Examples of "abridge" in Sentences

You should abridge it, not delete it.
I will abridge my commentaries tonight.
I am going to drastically edit and abridge it.
Why not abridge it and integrate it into an existing article on evolution
We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities.
One could argue that such restrictions "abridge" the freedom of the press, but that argument would be specious.
Our bar has been lowered way too far allowing laws to abridge individual freedoms in exchange for a nanny state.
Constitution that Congress can't begin to 'abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird.
And Anne, you seem to think Arabs 'abridge' the human rights of Jews, a month after Israel killed 1300 Palestinians, maimed thousands more, refuses to lift the blockade etc etc etc.
He therefore was commissioned to abridge and write a preface to a now obscure work of mental philosophy, The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (originally published in seven volumes from 1768 to 1777), which appeared in 1807 and may have had some influence on his own later thinking.