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   abridge

   /əˈbrɪdʒ/

   verb

   • 1. shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense: "the introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel"
   • 2. curtail (a right or privilege): "even the right to free speech can be abridged"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of’): from Old French abregier, from late Latin abbreviare ‘cut short’ (see abbreviate).

   Derivatives

   • 1. abridgeable adjective
   • 2. abridger noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • A

     1

   • B

     3

   • R

     1

   • I

     1

   • D

     2

   • G

     2

   • E

     1

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