abridge
verb (used with object)
to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents.
will abridge
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future tenseof abridge.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love; 245 Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark
Here if thou stay thou canst not see thy love; Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
I will abridge a little of my friend's liveliness.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
It is impossible to gather honey from a rock, Caesar, and therefore I will abridge the little I have to say.
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
I will abridge you of every kind of amusement, and will confine you from the rest of your schoolfellows, that you may not corrupt them.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by F. D. Bedford
