Difference between Shorten and Abridge

SHORTEN vs ABRIDGE: VERB

To become short or shorter.
To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To make short or shorter.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.

To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time

To reduce the length of (a written text); condense: : shorten.
To limit; curtail.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from.

To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To deprive.
To check; confine; restrain.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To cause to come short or fail.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.
To come short; fail.

To make shorter; curtail: as, “abridged cloaks,” Scott, Ivanhoe, xiv. To shorten by condensation or omission, or both; rewrite or reconstruct on a smaller scale; put the main or essential parts of into less space: used of writings: as, Justin abridged the history of Trogus Pompeius.
To lessen; diminish: as, to abridge labor.
To deprive; cut off: followed by of, and formerly also by from: as, to abridge one of rights or enjoyments.
In algebra, to reduce, as a compound quantity or equation, to a more simple form.

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Derogate, Circumscribe, Thwart, Override, Edit, Impede, Infringe, Curtail, Restrict, Contract, Cut, Foreshorten, Reduce, Shorten, Abbreviate

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Abrogate, Derogate, Circumscribe, Thwart, Edit, Impede, Infringe, Curtail, Restrict, Contract, Cut, Foreshorten, Reduce, Shorten, Abbreviate

The state governments could not abridge these rights through improper regulations.
Jason, which he hopes to abridge with sweat and long hours.
State, to abridge its contractual obligations without first pursuing other alternatives.
Such rules shall not abridge, enlarge or modifyany substantive right.
Service cannot abridge constitutional rights of assembly or protest.
Power of court to abridge time, in commercial matters.
This material is of immediate interest to abridge designers.
Lackof a bylaw does not abridge the right.
Congress to not abridge the freedom of speech.
Statute was not intended to abridge existing rights.

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