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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements — especially to a book

The first commercially available audiobook was a 1981 abridged version of the Doctor Who story, State of Decay.

abridged = shortened

abridge = reduce

I read an abridged version of Don Quixote that deleted the extra tales in order to focus on the central story.

abridged = shortened

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

abridgement = reduction

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use abridgment.)

Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry IV, Part 2
He was now adding a new clause to its pages: "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade ...."
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

abridging = reducing

In the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged "whale" and a "narwhale."
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

abridged = shortened

The reading sessions included Wednesday now as well, and they'd finished the water-abridged version of The Whistler and were on to The Dream Carrier.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

abridged = shortened

Her father is telling an abridged story of their flight, train stations, fearful crowds, omitting the stop in Evreux, but soon all of Marie-Laure's attention is absorbed by the smells blooming around her: egg, spinach, melting cheese.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

abridged = shortened (version of a)

thy staying will abridge thy life.
William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona

abridge = shorten

And, for he would his longe tale abridge,
Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Canterbury Tales

abridge = shorten; or reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged his time of fearing death.
William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar

abridged = shortened

Hall opened his file. AUTOCLOCK TRANSCRIPT PROJECT: SCOOP VII LAUNCHDATE: ABRIDGED VERSION.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

abridged = shortened; or reduced in scope while retaining essential elements

Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2

abridge = shorten

The first row of the pious chanson will show you more; for look where my abridgment comes.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

abridgment = cut off (ending or cutting short the talk)

...the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days

abridged = shortened

Options for My Hypothetical Future Recovery Scenario (Abridged)
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin

abridged = shortened; or reduced in scope while retaining essential elements

I took upon me, one Saturday noon (he was always worse on Saturdays), to hint to him, very kindly, that perhaps now that he was growing old, it might be well to abridge his labors;
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street

abridge = shorten or reduce

abridged = made shorter

In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but his former dignity is sadly abridged.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

abridged = reduced

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