Meaning of abridge in English
(Definition of abridge from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
abridge | Intermediate English
Examples of abridge
abridge
His newest book, which has no clear ending, has been abridged and read out loud onstage.
From Slate Magazine
And the government has no right to abridge that.
From NPR
A world where no man may abridge the liberty of another.
From TechCrunch
Such rights function to protect individuals from the state, even, or especially, when the state might find it useful to abridge them.
From The Atlantic
When he was done reading the full version of a book he would read shorter, abridged versions, and he noticed a trend: they were terrible.
From MLive.com
But the best of the movie finds a way to abridge the novel and still allow the scenes to breathe.
From Chicago Tribune
If they were suppressed, people would claim their freedoms are being abridged.
From USA TODAY
Such, for example, is the prohibition of any laws respecting the establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.
From Heritage.org
If so, an otherwise benevolent act might not be worth doing if it would abridge intrinsic values protected by the potential recipient's moral rights.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
For this reason, and in order to engage them, we abridged these as ‘counseling’ without distinguishing among individual psychotherapeutic techniques.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
First, it does not seem true that only a right can justify interfering with or abridging another right.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
According to the universalist view of informed consent, human subjects of clinical research have certain absolute rights that should not be easily abridged.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Every reference has to be checked, because most of the entries have been abridged.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Workers might be said to have their freedom of contract wrongly abridged by the minimum wage.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
All 16 elderly subjects most frequently abridged the sentence-initial embeddings while 15 elderly subjects most frequently paraphrased the sentence-final embeddings.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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