abridging

verb

present participle of abridge
as in shortening
to make less in extent or duration the library's hours have been drastically abridged to cut costs

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Recent Examples of abridging Advertisement The Fifteenth Amendment had prohibited denying or abridging voting rights based on race, color, or conditions of previous servitude. — Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abridging
  1. shortening
  2. curtailing
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  • The successful transfer highlights the digital twin’s accuracy and shows how robotics software can be rapidly validated before operating on real hardware, significantly shortening development cycles.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026
  • On Tuesday, a Paris appeals court cleared a path for the 57-year-old Le Pen to run by shortening a ban on seeking public office that had spelled possible doom for her ambitions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • In 2018, the DNC reformed its primaries on Sanders’s preferred terms, curtailing the role of superdelegates.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 July 2026
  • Jin was detained with 17 other church leaders in October in one of China’s largest crackdowns on a single church in decades, raising worries over Beijing’s escalation in curtailing religious freedom.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of curtailing

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