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All abridgment synonyms

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noun abridgment

  • capsule — A capsule is a very small tube containing powdered or liquid medicine, which you swallow.
  • compendium — A compendium is a short but detailed collection of information, usually in a book.
  • sketch — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
  • outline — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
  • reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
  • summary — a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
  • synopsis — a brief or condensed statement giving a general view of some subject.
  • curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
  • decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
  • diminution — the act, fact, or process of diminishing; lessening; reduction.
  • lessening — to become less.
  • digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • breviary — a book of psalms, hymns, prayers, etc, to be recited daily by clerics in major orders and certain members of religious orders as part of the divine office
  • abridgement — a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
  • compend — a compendium
  • condensation — Condensation consists of small drops of water which form when warm water vapour or steam touches a cold surface such as a window.
  • abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
  • brief — Something that is brief lasts for only a short time.
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