Antonym: expansion. Similar words: abridgement, abridge, abridged, judgment, judgmental, last judgment, acknowledgment, debridement. Meaning: [-mənt] 
n. a shortened version of a written work.
n. a shortened version of a written work. 
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1. An abridgment of the book has been published for young readers.
2. They had a uniform guideline from the abridgment to the compiling of textbooks by Japanese left-wing force.
3. The abridgment and distortion of Chinese textbooks during Japanese invasion of China was to carry out its obscurantism and cultural invasion.
4. Jefferson even made his own abridgment of the New Testament, cutting out almost all the miracle stories and claims to Jesus' deity and retaining the moral teachings.
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5. This abridgment provides a concise presentation of this masterpiece of Buddhist literature.
6. Abuses of the investigative process may imperceptibly lead to abridgment of protected freedoms.
7. By communicating with the author, Lin Shu applies the translation methods like deletion, abridgment and addition, while Huang Jizhong reserves almost the whole original text.
8. This explains why Lin Shu adopted translating methods such as addition, deletion, abridgment and adaptation in his Chinese translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
9. In terms of the legitimacy of academic freedom, three sorts of abridgment or suppression of the freedom are available.
10. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
11. For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of all the land.
12. IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
13. In addition, it discussed essence information's marking, token adding, length, abridgment, etc.
14. This insert connects the record engraved on the Small Plates with Mormon's abridgment of the Large Plates.
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