Vocabulary
Abridge
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense.
Urdu meaning
مختصر کرنا، گھٹانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Its leaders facing arrest warrants may abridge their travels to some extent, but their movement is already greatly limited by the classification of the organisation.
Synonyms
shorten, cut, cut short/down, curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop, clip, pare down
Antonyms
lengthen, expand on, pad out
Curator example
“the introduction is abridged from the author’s afterword to the novel”
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