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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abridged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an abridged version (=one that is shortened from the original but not changed in any other way)
▪ Reader’s Digest published abridged versions of many popular novels.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
version
▪ This article is an abridged version of his Inaugural Lecture, given at the University on 2 March.
▪ This is a further abridged version.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The book is an abridged account of his experiences in India before Independence.
▪ The following article is an abridged version of a speech given by Porter in May 2000.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
▪ John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons.
▪ The abridged edition is widely used in smaller general libraries, specifically school libraries and small public libraries.
▪ This article is an abridged version of his Inaugural Lecture, given at the University on 2 March.
▪ This is a further abridged version.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
abridged

abridged \abridged\ adj. 1. 1 shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts: an abridged version [Narrower terms: half-length] unabridged, full-length

Syn: condensed

Wiktionary
abridged
  1. cut or shortened, especially of a literary work v

  2. (en-past of: abridge)

WordNet
abridged

adj. (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version" [ant: unabridged]

Usage examples of "abridged".

The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners.

If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.

Venice edition of the Councils contains all the acts of the synods, and history of Photius: they are abridged, with a faint tinge of prejudice or prudence, by Dupin and Fleury.

These original and authentic acts I have translated and abridged with freedom, yet with fidelity.

Lenfant has abridged and compared the original narratives of the adherents of Urban and Clement, of the Italians and Germans, the French and Spaniards.

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

United States shall not be denied or abridged because of race or sex or because the person is married.

It has been subsequently held many times that municipal corporations are mere instrumentalities of the State for the more convenient administration of local governments, whose powers may be enlarged, abridged, or entirely withdrawn at the pleasure of the legislature.

This dictum became, two years later, accepted doctrine when the Court invalidated a State law on the ground that it abridged freedom of speech contrary to the due process clause of Amendment XIV.

The latter privilege was deemed to have been abridged by city officials who acted in pursuance of a void ordinance which authorized a director of safety to refuse permits for parades or assemblies on streets or parks whenever he believed riots could thereby be avoided and who forcibly evicted from their city union organizers who sought to use the streets and parks for the aforementioned purposes.

Here the Court declared that the right of a citizen, resident in one State, to contract in another, to transact any lawful business, or to make a loan of money, in any State other than that in which the citizen resides was a privilege of national citizenship which was abridged by a State income tax law excluding from taxable income interest received on money loaned within the State.

The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Court was unable to concede that a Georgia statute levying on inhabitants of the State a poll tax payment of which is made a prerequisite for voting but exempting females who do not register for voting, in any way abridged the right of male citizens to vote on account of their sex.