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# abridged

verb (abridge, abridges, abridged, abridging); adjective (abridged)

«abridged» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To abridge a book or story is to make it shorter by leaving parts out, while keeping the main story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#m1)
2. Abridged means shortened in this way: an abridged version. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#m2)

### In the lessons

a story retold in a shorter form for children, so the main tale is kept but the long speeches are left out

### Examples

- The teacher abridged the long story for us. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x1)
- This is an abridged version of the tale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x2)
- I abridged the rules so the class could read them quickly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x3)
- The abridged book is only forty pages long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «abridged» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«abridged» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/abridged.html) on Mova free.