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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Spartan, abridged, 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

Dictionary Results for abbreviated:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

abbreviated
    adj 1: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a
           brief bikini" [syn: abbreviated, brief]
    2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her
       shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an
       unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: abbreviated,
       shortened, truncated]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]t), v. t.
   [imp. & p. p. Abbreviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abbreviating.]
   [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to
   shorten, fr. brevis short. See Abridge.]
   1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
      contraction or omission, especially of words written or
      spoken.
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            It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
            another by cutting off.               --Bacon.
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   2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d),
   a.
   Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
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