ABBREVIATED: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: | | u'breevee`eytid
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Matching Terms: | | abbreviate, Abbreviated Test Language for Avionics Systems
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- [adj] (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
- [adj] cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
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| Synonyms: | | brief, short, shortened, truncated |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\, a.
Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
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| Related Terms: | | 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, Spartan, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated |
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