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abridged

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??b??d?d/

Adjective

abridged (comparative more abridged, superlative most abridged)

  1. Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
    The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length.

Related terms

  • unabridged

Translations

Verb

abridged

  1. simple past tense and past participle of abridge

Anagrams

  • bigraded, brigaded

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unabridged

English

Etymology

From un- +? abridged.

Adjective

unabridged (not comparable)

  1. (of a book or document) Not abridged, shortened, expurgated or condensed; complete.
    Synonyms: uncensored, uncondensed, unexpurgated
    Antonym: abridged
    Coordinate term: unedited

Translations

Noun

unabridged (plural unabridgeds)

  1. An unabridged publication, especially a reference work
    • 1975, William Morris, It's Easy to Increase Your Vocabulary
      it would seem to indicate that arcane's restoration to general usage is fairly recent and we may expect that it will move from the comparative obscurity of the unabridgeds to proper listing in general use

Anagrams

  • unbrigaded

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