[syn: abbreviated, shortened, truncated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]t), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Abbreviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abbreviating.]
[L. abbreviatus, p. p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to
shorten, fr. brevis short. See Abridge.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
contraction or omission, especially of words written or
spoken.
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It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
another by cutting off. --Bacon.
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2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d),
a.
Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
abbreviated
adj 1: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a
brief bikini" [syn: abbreviated, brief]
2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her
shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an
unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated,
shortened, truncated]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "abbreviated":
Spartan, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief,
brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
to the point, trimmed, truncated