Englishabridge
verb
the editor reserves the right to abridge letters to fit the space available:
shorten, cut, cut short/down, curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop, clip, pare down, prune;
abbreviate, condense, contract, compress, reduce, decrease, diminish, shrink;
summarize, give a summary of, sum up, abstract, give an abstract of, precis, give a precis of, synopsize, give a synopsis of, digest, give a digest of, outline, give an outline of, sketch, put in a nutshell, edit;
rare epitomize.
▷antonyms lengthen, expand on, pad out.
| choose the right word | abridge, shorten, abbreviate, truncate, curtail |
| See shorten. | |
abridge Oxford Dictionary of English