Verkürzen — meaning in English

English meaning

• abridge verb To take something away from someone; to cut it off.
• abridgment noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
• contract noun A written or spoken agreement, especially one intended to be enforceable by law.
• curtail verb To cut something short or reduce it, especially something that would otherwise have continued at its full extent.
• shorten verb To make something shorter in length, duration, or extent.

Senses

Verkürzen is used for these senses in English:

• abridge (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. [First attested around 1350–1470]
• abridge (transitive) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense. [First attested in 1384] [First attested around 1350–1470]
• abridgment (dated, legal) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
• contract (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• curtail (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
• cut short (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
• shorten (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.

abridge — full definition

1. verb To take something away from someone; to cut it off.
2. verb To stop someone from having or doing something.
3. verb To make something shorter in length or time.
4. verb To make a piece of writing shorter while keeping its main meaning.

abridgment — full definition

1. noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
2. noun The condition of having been made shorter or reduced.
3. noun A shortened version of a book or other piece of writing.
4. noun Something that cuts time short, such as an amusement that makes the time seem to fly by.

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