Sentence example with the word 'abbreviate'

abbreviate

abridge, bowdlerize, compress, crop, decrease, elide, knit, pucker, retrench, strangle, synopsize

Definition v. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

Last update: October 28, 2016


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Why on earth would someone abbreviate million as MM?   [verb]

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The terminal note may also be somewhat abbreviated and intermediate between an ascending or descending note.   [Please select]

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The longer stories you will abbreviate in telling, and the children will still further shorten them.   [Please select]

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But La Fontaine, in this abbreviated history, is only the echo of another fabulist.   [Please select]

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A most useful condensed and abbreviated gazetteer of France, with a series of handy four-colour maps showing main roads sufficiently clearly for real use as an automobile route-book.   [verb]

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The overnight visitor's wife appeared from the house in abbreviated skirts, and wearing formidable shin-guards.   [Please select]

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I said a good deal more, but that is an abbreviated translation of my remarks.   [Please select]

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abbots - abbreviate - abbreviated