Results for abbreviate

Definitions of abbreviate:

part of speech: verb transitive

To make brief or short: to abridge.

part of speech: verb

To shorten; to reduce to a smaller size; to abridge.

part of speech: verb transitive

To shorten, as by contraction of a word, as Dec. for December.

Usage examples for abbreviate:

• In compound names, as North Dakota and West Virginia, do not abbreviate one part of the compound and write out the other. "Composition-Rhetoric", Stratton D. Brooks