Synonyms of the word

abridge

• v. (transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
• v. (transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
• v. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
• v. (transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
• v. (transitive) Cut short; truncate.
• v. (transitive) To curtail.

abbreviate

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
• v. (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
• v. (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable…
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
• adj. (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
• adj. (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
• n. (obsolete) An abridgment.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

curtail

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal.
• v. (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
• n. (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

foreshorten

• v. To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
• v. to abridge, reduce, contract.
• v. to make shorter.

lessen

• v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• v. (intransitive) To become less.

minify

• v. To make smaller.
• v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
• v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

restrict

• v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
• v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
• adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

shorten

• v. (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
• v. (intransitive) To become shorter.
• v. (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
• v. (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
• v. (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
• v. (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.