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abbreviatingverbpresent participle of abbreviate to make less in extent or durationhad to abbreviate his vacation in France in order to travel to Oslo to receive the Nobel Prize abridging, curtailing, cutting back, docking, eliding, shortening, syncopating, truncating abstracting, digesting, encapsulating, epitomizing, recapitulating, summarizing, summing upabating, compressing, constricting, contracting, cutting, cutting down, paring, pruning, trimmingdecreasing, de-escalating, deflating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, moderating, modifying, reducing, retrenching, shrinking, slashing, subtracting (from), tapering elongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting enlarging, expanding, supplementingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, dilating, escalating, heightening, increasing, maximizing, pumping up, raisingblowing up, distending, inflating, swelling |