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# abridged

«abridged» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make it shorter by leaving parts out, while keeping…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (abridge, abridges, abridged, abridging); adjective (abridged)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To abridge a book or story is to make it shorter by leaving parts out, while keeping the main story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#m1)

2) Abridged means shortened in this way: an abridged version. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a story retold in a shorter form for children, so the main tale is kept but the long speeches are left out

### examples

- The teacher abridged the long story for us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x1)
- This is an abridged version of the tale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x2)
- I abridged the rules so the class could read them quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x3)
- The abridged book is only forty pages long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abridged» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abridged/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.