Results for abridge

Definitions of abridge:

part of speech: verb transitive

To make brief or short: to shorten: to epitomize.

part of speech: verb transitive

To shorten; condense; as, to abridge a dictionary.

Usage examples for abridge:

• Anxious to abridge the evils from which a state of war can not be exempt, I lost no time after it was declared in conveying to the British Government the terms on which its progress might be arrested, without awaiting the delays of a formal and final pacification, and our charge d'affaires at London was at the same time authorized to agree to an armistice founded upon them. "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various

• The baronial council clearly regards itself as competent to act on behalf of all the estates of the realm, and the expedient of reducing the national deliberations to three sessions of select committees betrays a desire to abridge the frequent and somewhat irksome duty of attendance in Parliament rather than to share the central legislative and deliberative power with the whole body of the people. "The Rise of the Democracy", Joseph Clayton

• He says that the bounty, by raising the profits of farming, will operate as an encouragement to husbandry; by raising the price of corn to the consumers at home, it will diminish for the time their power of purchasing this necessary of life, and thus abridge their real wealth. "On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation", David Ricardo