Definitionv. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Last update: October 28, 2016
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Why on earth would someone abbreviate million as MM? [verb]
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The terminal note may also be somewhat abbreviated and intermediate between an ascending or descending note. [Please select]
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The longer stories you will abbreviate in telling, and the children will still further shorten them. [Please select]
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But La Fontaine, in this abbreviated history, is only the echo of another fabulist. [Please select]
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A most useful condensed and abbreviated gazetteer of France, with a series of handy four-colour maps showing main roads sufficiently clearly for real use as an automobile route-book. [verb]
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The overnight visitor's wife appeared from the house in abbreviated skirts, and wearing formidable shin-guards. [Please select]
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I said a good deal more, but that is an abbreviated translation of my remarks. [Please select]
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