abridged
/əˈbɹɪd͡ʒd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.01 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
verb
simple past and past participle of abridge
Example Sentences
- "The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length."
- "How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!"
- "CHEMINS DE FER. Edited by Jean Herbert. Elsevier Publishing Co. [...] 30s. [...] This invaluable paper-back glossary of railway terms in six languages, French, German, English, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, is an abridged edition of the Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer Lexique General des Termes Ferroviaires; [...]."
Etymology
From abridge + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more abridged (comparative)
most abridged (superlative)