abridges
- present tense form of abridge (3rd person singular).
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
The locomotive binds industrial centres, and abridges time and space as it speeds along its iron pathway; whilst steam-power does the work of thousands of hands in our large factories.
From Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 by Anonymous
