'abridgment' definitions:
Definition of 'abridgment'
From: WordNet
noun
Synonyms of 'abridgment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- abbreviation,
- abstract,
- alleviation,
- aphorism,
- apocope,
- attenuation,
- bereavement,
- blue-penciling,
- bowdlerization,
- breviary,
- brief,
- cancellation,
- capsule,
- censoring,
- censorship,
- compendium,
- compression,
- condensation,
- conspectus,
- contraction,
- curtailment,
- dampening,
- damping,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- deletion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- deprivation,
- deprivement,
- digest,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- disburdening,
- disburdenment,
- disentitlement,
- divestment,
- dying,
- dying off,
- editing,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- epigram,
- epitome,
- erasure,
- expurgation,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- foreshortening,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- letup,
- lowering,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- omission,
- outline,
- precis,
- privation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relieving,
- retrenchment,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- shortening,
- simplicity,
- sketch,
- striking,
- subtraction,
- sum,
- summary,
- summation,
- summing-up,
- syllabus,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- telescoping,
- truncation,
- weakening