To make brief or short: to abridge.
To shorten; to reduce to a smaller size; to abridge.
To shorten, as by contraction of a word, as Dec. for December.
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
In compound names, as North Dakota and West Virginia, do not abbreviate one part of the compound and write out the other.