ABRIDGING Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

abridging

verb

present participle of abridge

as in shortening

to make less in extent or duration the library's hours have been drastically abridged to cut costs

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Recent Examples of abridging Advertisement The Fifteenth Amendment had prohibited denying or abridging voting rights based on race, color, or conditions of previous servitude. — Time, 29 Oct. 2025

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But the decline of regional sports networks has changed the math in baseball, which is now actively considering shortening its season.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
De Meo is also scaling the ‘see-now, buy-now’ model, shortening the development and production cycle so that runway items hit the stores faster.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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But its removal raised fuel prices sharply, pressure that was exacerbated by the Iran war curtailing energy supplies.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Artificial opens in 2003, in the University of Toronto lab of Geoffrey Hinton, the man who’d come to be known as the godfather of AI, and ends with a postscript from Hinton about the necessity of curtailing the capabilities of AI, fast.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

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