The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

abridged \abridged\ adj.
   1. 1 shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts:
      an abridged version [Narrower terms: half-length]
      unabridged, full-length

   Syn: condensed
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Abridge \A*bridge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abridged; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Abridging.] [OE. abregen, OF. abregier, F.
   abr['e]ger, fr. L. abbreviare; ad + brevis short. See Brief
   and cf. Abbreviate.]
   1. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to
      diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge
      power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his
      visit." --Smollett.
      [1913 Webster]

            She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her
            train from state to necessity.        --Fuller.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining
      the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a
      history or dictionary.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by
      from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

abridged
    adj 1: (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an
           abridged version" [ant: unabridged]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "abridged":
   Spartan, abbreviated, 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