abridge
verb (used with object)
to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents.
abridges
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present tense formof abridge (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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She abridges its plot, removing the second-generation narrative that bookends Brontë’s writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
The amendment speaks solely to governmental action that abridges free speech, not to societal actions or the actions of other individuals.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
It also brazenly abridges physicians’ freedom of speech.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2019
“It does not entitle the Florida Supreme Court to adopt, or this court to endorse, a rule of judicial conduct that abridges candidates’ speech in the judicial election that the Florida Constitution prescribes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2015
But this servitude is outward only, and abridges in no sort the liberty of private judgment.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Henry Cabot Lodge
