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abridge

Verbs

• (v) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
  • The manuscript must be shortened
  abbreviate, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut,
• (v) lessen, diminish, or curtail
  • the new law might abridge our freedom of expression

Synonyms

abbreviate foreshorten shorten contract reduce cut

Antonyms

elaborate expatiate expound lucubrate dilate exposit flesh out enlarge expand

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