abridged

«abridged» in Mova's school dictionary: to make it shorter by leaving parts out, while keeping… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (abridge, abridges, abridged, abridging); adjective (abridged)

meaning for a pupil

1) To abridge a book or story is to make it shorter by leaving parts out, while keeping the main story. tree →

2) Abridged means shortened in this way: an abridged version. tree →

sense in the lessons

a story retold in a shorter form for children, so the main tale is kept but the long speeches are left out

examples

• The teacher abridged the long story for us. tree →
• This is an abridged version of the tale. tree →
• I abridged the rules so the class could read them quickly. tree →
• The abridged book is only forty pages long. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «abridged» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.