abridging

verb

present participle of abridge
as in shortening
to make less in extent or duration the library's hours have been drastically abridged to cut costs

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Recent Examples of abridging Advertisement The Fifteenth Amendment had prohibited denying or abridging voting rights based on race, color, or conditions of previous servitude. — Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abridging
  1. shortening
  2. curtailing
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  • As an investor at Point72, the hedge fund of billionaire Steve Cohen, Shaffer watched Wall Street turn private fund shares into digital tokens without shortening investors’ waits to cash out.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The mission definitely succeeded, shortening the little asteroid's orbit around a larger rock called Didymos by about 33 minutes.
    — Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • Has the time come for the Dodgers to consider curtailing his pitching?
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The latest move by Taipei — a central node in global semiconductor manufacturing — is a significant step in curtailing black market sales to Chinese companies seeking to bypass US curbs.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of curtailing

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“Abridging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abridging. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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