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Meanings of
abridge
in anglès
portuguès
encurtar
català
encongir
espanyol
contraer
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Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
cut
contract
reduce
shorten
abbreviate
foreshorten
expand
català
encongir
Synonyms
Examples for "
cut
"
cut
contract
reduce
shorten
abbreviate
Examples for "
cut
"
1
Julian Barnes: 'Do you expect Europe to
cut
us a good deal?
2
That study, which was published last year, used standard Crispr
cut
-
and
-
paste
technology.
3
Olmert
cut
short a visit to Europe on Wednesday and returned home.
4
The job
cut
will likely affect mainly foreign plants, the paper said.
5
Results: Radiologically, these three second tumors were clearly
cut
-
end
scar area recurrences.
1
City Water said key information had been left out of its
contract
.
2
People reports the Mo' Money actress'
contract
was not renewed this year.
3
The Company operates in two segments:
contract
research services and research products.
4
He said: This
contract
was posted several days ago by Jordan Goudreau.
5
Coolwagon will create 10 new jobs as a result of the
contract
.
1
Stabilizing the Middle East, of course, would
reduce
the pressure on Europe.
2
I believe this will
reduce
crime and allay public concern for safety.
3
Current strategies to
reduce
this problem include early detection and appropriate treatment.
4
Take the recent historic EU climate change deal to
reduce
CO2 emissions.
5
The global crisis could also
reduce
the amount of outside funding available.
1
RARE-sequences help to
shorten
investigation time, particularly in cases involving the skeleton.
2
A higher spiking concentration made it possible to
shorten
the detection time.
3
Unusually dry winters and higher water consumption could
shorten
this deadline considerably.
4
Hospitals are encouraged to take every effort to
shorten
delay of treatment.
5
I see something is doing in England to
shorten
the apprenticeship system.
1
He could fit things on drawer labels that I had to
abbreviate
.
2
Even better, use shorthand properties to
abbreviate
this rule even further, like this:
3
The original runs through twenty-six verses, but I
abbreviate
and give the substance:-
4
Nor does this inclination to
abbreviate
stop at the door of the laboratory.
5
We must greatly
abbreviate
the formidable list of churches furnished us by travellers.
1
The mountains dwarf mankind and
foreshorten
the procession of its long generations.
2
Last year there were rumours that his knees were in such a chronic state that they would
foreshorten
his career.
3
You
foreshorten
as though you never used the model, and you've caught Kami's pasty way of dealing with flesh in shadow.
4
I have often used inexact or
foreshortened
quotations, adapting them as necessary.
5
Its top was not
foreshortened
,
nor its farther side and base invisible.
Usage of
abridge
in anglès
1
Those notices necessarily
abridge
the relation of this section of the chapter.
2
I don't think the worse of you for wishing to
abridge
it.
3
M. Piotrowski gives an account of it, from which I
abridge
the following:
4
You
abridge
me of my rights, in denying me a change of name.
5
Her father at length found it necessary to
abridge
the interview.
6
That we must
abridge
the laws regarding compulsory education is evident.
7
I shall, therefore, greatly
abridge
the chronicle of my subsequent years.
8
I
abridge
,
I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying.
9
He should not therefore
abridge
the time of his usefulness by his own act.
10
And because I will
abridge
it they are my enemies.
11
We cannot, therefore,
abridge
this letter, nor deny ourselves the pleasure of transcribing it:
12
He said he would gladly
abridge
his life of Chatterton, if I required it.
13
First, of all useful machines and instruments of trade, which facilitate and
abridge
labour.
14
But we must
abridge
,
we will only present them briefly.
15
They ought not to
abridge
its dignity, nor to put limits to its benevolence.
16
We shall
abridge
Mr. Delepierre's statement of this curious case.
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abridge
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
abridge in
abridge the narrative
abridge any privileges
abridge ceremony
abridge civil
More collocations
Translations for
abridge
portuguès
encurtar
condensar
resumir
abreviar
català
encongir
abreujar
contraure
contreure
escurçar
espanyol
contraer
encoger
reducir
Abridge
through the time
Abridge
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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