abridge
verb (used with object)
to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents.
abridger
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a word derived from
abridge.
Example Sentences
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Well, I’m an abridger, so I’m entitled to a few ideas of my own.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Thus he may be counted as a reformer, but not as an innovater nor an abridger.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
He is rather an able and animated abridger of the chronicles, than an historian.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
In the first place, a grammarian must be a writer, an author, a man who observes and thinks for himself; and not a mere compiler, abridger, modifier, copyist, or plagiarist.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
As a historian he takes a low rank; as an abridger he is better, but best of all as a rhetorical anecdotist and painter of character in action.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
