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Verb(1) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements(2) shorten(3) cut short an activity

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(1) Europeans abbreviate dates in reverse, and doing it wrong could invalidate your card.(2) I wish subtitles didn't have to abbreviate the dialogue though.(3) Due to the large numbers of those indicted, the court clerks eventually tired of writing the charge in full and began to abbreviate it.(4) Such an establishment was called a cafu00d4u00f6u00a3u252cu00ab concert or cafu00d4u00f6u00a3u252cu00ab concu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb (be careful not to abbreviate it further).(5) In order to save typing, many people will abbreviate common words and phrases.(6) When I'm composing my reviews, I often abbreviate the movie title, then use Microsoft Word's replace function to fill in the title in its entirety.(7) Here we greatly abbreviate our summary of the book to focus on its limitations.(8) I should probably explain that that's how Krista abbreviates her full name, which is Kristine.(9) The name is usually abbreviated to poliomyelitis, or more commonly, polio.(10) It isn't an easy read, mostly because the skinny format abbreviates names to three letters, often beyond recognition.(11) The following are some abbreviated notes of mine from this tasting.(12) There's nothing particularly new about using abbreviated forms of words when space is limited or repetition becomes tiresome.(13) The foregoing is a very abbreviated version of Wittgenstein's argument in Philosophical Investigations.(14) Pseudonyms will not be used; abbreviated addresses will be published.(15) The summary that follows will be necessarily abbreviated .(16) Around this time she met the famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and abbreviated her name to Dora Maar.
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Verb
1. shorten
2. reduce
3. cut
4. contract
5. condense
6. compress
7. abridge
8. truncate
9. pare down
10. prune
11. shrink
12. telescope
13. summarize
14. abstract
16. synopsize
17. digest


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