Abridge is valid Scrabble Word

Is abridge a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is abridge valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for ABRIDGE in dictionary:

VERB:

to shorten
shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense
curtail (a right or privilege)
shorten by using fewer words
To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
lessen, diminish, or curtail

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to reduce the length of

Words related to ABRIDGE

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Words that contain ABRIDGE

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How to use ABRIDGE in a sentence

As far as their influence will reach, it is in vain to endeavour, nor will I attempt, to abridge it.
Wilberforce, seeing that it filled three folio volumes, to abridge it.
While these things were going on, it devolved upon me to arrange all the evidence on the part of the abolition under proper heads, and to abridge it into one volume.
I felt the fatigue very much, and at the close of the meeting found it necessary for a time to abridge my labors.
Oh! why did you not abridge this tedious interval? Why not inform me you had altered your mind? But I will not reproach you.
A collection of identical symbols would have the advantage of permitting us to abridge explanations in regard to the signification of terms used in mathematical formulas.
Congress has no power to abridge the right of petition.
From this it might be understood, in what light she would view an attempt to abridge one of her favorite prerogatives.
The burden of proving it inexpedient always lies, and wholly lies, on those who wish to abridge it by coercion, whether direct or indirect.
She was even taught by the uncertainty of the event to desire to prolong, rather than abridge, a situation which might be delusive, but which was not without its pleasures.

It is, of course, out of the question to abridge the various Lincoln-Douglas discussions of which the text fills a good-sized volume.
The volume of literature coming from this period is so vast that it has been necessary to abridge it at many points in order to utilize that which is most valuable.
Mawe, from whose interesting work we abridge these particulars, considers the oriental sapphire to rank next in value to the ruby.
But as no negotiation had prepared the Pope in favor of laws designed in reality to abridge his own power, it was no wonder that he rejected them with indignation.
No law should be made or enforced which would abridge my right while enlarging the right of my neighbor.
Long as it is, we cannot bring ourselves to abridge it.
Her father at length found it necessary to abridge the interview.
I cannot transcribe, and I hardly dare to abridge it.
I should be more disposed to enlarge than abridge it, on account of their neighborhood to our Atlantic trade.
The practice has been continued among them, as deeming that the late Revolution should in no instance abridge the rights of the people.
Yet I have not been able to abridge it, without omitting circumstances which I thought Congress would rather choose to know.
My taking this particular path does not in the least abridge others from prosecuting different views, wherever they may see an opening.
For, if you have no right to abridge any of the liberty which Providence has left to man, you have no right to punish any one for committing murder or robbery.
His response as to the character of the churches, which I necessarily abridge, is deemed applicable, substantially, to the seventy-four churches among the Armenians.
The next effort of the minister was obliquely levelled at the liberty of the press, which it was much for his interest to abridge.
His lordship proposed, therefore, to abridge the number of cases of transportation, but to aggravate its operation in those which continued subject to it.
Those notices necessarily abridge the relation of this section of the chapter.
I abridge it and only give the substance, the details being more ample, of which facts the savans are not ignorant.
Of all the inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species.
My father gave me to know that his former wish to abridge my life in the South had given way to his fears, and that I was to continue to spend my winters in Charleston.
It was always a painful duty to abridge the food of the labouring man, and had been too often exercised here.
Each of them given up to his personal reflections, and constructing his future after his own fashion, was, above all, anxious to abridge the distance by speed.
This forbade the states to abridge the rights of the citizens, white or black.
He was not the man needlessly to abridge the harmless enjoyment of youth, or to repress its innocent hilarity.
He should not therefore abridge the time of his usefulness by his own act.
They ought not to abridge its dignity, nor to put limits to its benevolence.
I would abridge the British maritime power, raise Prussia and Austria to their original condition, and preserve the integrity of the Empire of Russia.

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