abbreviate

verb

they called the phenomenon long-term potentiation, soon abbreviated to LTP:

shorten, reduce, cut, cut short/down, contract, condense, compress, abridge, truncate, clip, crop, pare down, prune, shrink, constrict, telescope, curtail;

summarize, abstract, precis, synopsize, digest, edit.

▷antonyms lengthen, expand, elongate.

choose the right word	abbreviate, shorten, abridge, truncate, curtail
See shorten.

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