abridge
verb (used with object)
to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents.
is abridging
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present progressiveof abridge (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is abridging their liberty of carrying belief into action in one important respect, that, namely, of giving a Christian education.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
Science, however, has abridged, and is abridging, that distance: science has diminished, and is diminishing, that expense.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
This is abridging them of their natural Extent of Power, to put them upon a Level with their Pictures at Kneller's.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
There is no canting, and very little hypocrisy, in mere matters of habits, in France; and this, at once, is abridging two of our own most besetting vices.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
