abridge

abridge one of his rights

The play was abridged for TV.

the cassettes have been abridged from the original stories.

The rights of citizens must not be abridged without proper cause.

48. Reader: (1) An abridged term for "proofreader" who checks proofs for accuracy. (2) Device which can "read" from magnetic media or, in the case of OCR, from typescript.

The publisher decided to abridge the novel for a younger audience.

They abridged the meeting to keep it short and concise.

An abridged version of the textbook is available for students who want a quick review.

The movie adaptation had to abridge some scenes from the original book.

The abridged dictionary is perfect for students who need a compact reference.

The play was abridged to fit within the time constraints of the performance.

The abridged version of the report highlighted the key findings.

The abridged version of the novel omitted some of the subplots.

The abridged audiobook is perfect for commuters with limited time.

To save time, the professor decided to abridge his lecture on the topic.

But in this context I'm just going to read an abridged version of those texts.

After I had been approached to record it, I discovered the company intended an abridged version.

Those who liked suspension wouldn't be crossed at a crossing, even an abridged version would leave them beaming.

We gave you the abridged version.

I usually listen to one in the car (always unabridged; I think abridged audio-books are the pits), and carry another wherever I go.

We’ll tell you the abridged story, and you can tell us what you think of Charles Sobhraj at the end.

How I long to listen to the abridged versions of Ivanhoe and Peter Pan in the last hour of the class?

Soon, he started writing an abridged version that he thought people might want to buy at a reduced price, but time had bested him.

The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour.

I felt, had Nabokov wanted it abridged, he would have written it shorter, and I suggested to his son Dmitri that he might insist we record it as written.