Abbreviate

Definitions: Abbreviate

Abbreviate

Verb

1. Shorten, as of words; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'.".

2. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "abbreviate" was first used: some time in the early 15th century. (references)

Synonyms: Abbreviate

Compendium

Abbreviate; (shorten); condense; (compress); compile; (collect).

Shortness

Verb: be short; Adjective: render short; Adjective: shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress; (contract); epitomize.

Crosswords: Abbreviate

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaan

bekort (abridge, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Albanian

shkurtoj (abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إختصر (abridge, analyse, analyze, boil down, clip, curtail, cut short, limit, nick, outline, reduce, shorten, syncopate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съкращавам (abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, slash, take off, terminate, truncate), скъсявам (contract, curtail, cut down, retract, shorten), намалявам (abate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down). (various references)

Chinese 

省略 (Abbreviated, Abbreviating, Elliptical). (various references)

Czech

zkrátit (abridge, Bob, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut short, dock, reduce, shorten). (various references)

Danish

forkorte (abridge, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Dutch

inkorten (abate, abridge, curtail, decrease, docking, lessen, shorten), bekorten (abridge, curtail, shorten, to arrest), afkorten (abridge, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Esperanto

malplilongigi (abridge, curtail, shorten), mallongigi (abridge, shorten), kurtigi (shorten). (various references)

Faeroese

minka (reduce), gera einfaldan (reduce). (various references)

Farsi 

مختصرکردن (Abridge, Shorten, Simplify), کوتاه کردن (Abridge, Curtail, Dock, Short, Shorten, Stag), خلاصه کردن (Abstract, Condense, Cutdown, Epitomize, Summarize). (various references)

Finnish

supistaa (abridge, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut down, limit, reduce, restrict). (various references)

French

abréger (abate, abridge, abstract). (various references)

Frisian

ferkoartsje (abridge, curtail, shorten), bekoartsje (abridge, curtail, shorten). (various references)

German

verkürzen (abridge, curtail, cut, cut down, cut short, decrease, end, foreshorten, narrow, reduce, shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to shorten), abkürzen (abridge, be cut, curtail, cut short, shorten, take a short cut, to abbreviate, to cut short, to shorten). (various references)

Greek 

συντομεύω (abridge). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתמצת (abstract, condense, epitomize, summarize), לקצר (curtail, cut across, short, shorten), ל� טרק. (various references)

Hungarian

rövidít (abridge, curtail, shorten, to abbreviate, to abridge, to take a short cut). (various references)

Italian

abbreviare (abridge, curtail, cut short, shorten), accorciare (abridge, become shorten, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

略す　 (to abbreviate), 略す (to abbreviate), 切り上�'る (to abbreviate, to close, to finish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりあ�'る (to abbreviate, to close, to finish), りゃくす (to abbreviate). (various references)

Korean 

약칭하십시�". (various references)

Malay

singkat (abridge, curtail, shorten), menyingkat (abridge, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Manx

girraghey (abridge, abridgement, abridging, contract, foreshorten, shorten, shortening), giarrey (abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), aagherrey. (various references)

Norwegian

forkorte (abridge). (various references)

Papiamen

abreviá (abridge, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Pig Latin

abbreviateay.(various references)

Polish

skrócić. (various references)

Portuguese

abreviar (abridge, shorten, to explode). (various references)

Romanian

prescurta (abridge, condense, curtail, reduce, riddle, shorten), abrevia (abridge, contract, curtail, shorten). (various references)

Russian 

сокращать (abridge, blue pencil, blue-pencil, condense, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, divide out, dock, epitomize, pare, pare away, razee, reduce, shorten, shortens). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skratiti (abridge, curtail, cut short, detruncate, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, syncopate, telescope, truncate). (various references)

Spanish

acortar (abridge, clip, curtail, cut back, cut short, shorten, turn up), abreviar (abridge, be quick, boil down, curtail, cut short, shorten, to explode). (various references)

Swedish

förkorta (abridge, curtail, cut, encapsulate, reduce, short circuit, shorten, telescope). (various references)

Turkish

kisaltmak (abridge, curtail, shorten), kısaltmak (abridge, cancel, clip, compress, curtail, cut down, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, retrench, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up). (various references)

Ukranian 

скорочувати (abate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tương đối ngắn. (various references)

Welsh

talfyrru (abridge), byr.hau (abridge, shorten). (various references)

abbreviare, ad, adbreviasti, adbreviata, adbreviatus, adbreviavit, breviabuntur, breviandi, brevians, breviantes, breviare, breviasset, breviata, breviati, breviatum, breviavit, curtare, curto, imminuare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "abbreviate": abbreviated, abbreviates. (additional references)

Words containing "abbreviate": unabbreviated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Abbreviate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abbrediate, abbreiate, abbrevate, abbreviata, Abbreviatum, abbriviate, abreviate, abriviate, breviat, breviate, brevitate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: barbate, variate, vibrate.

-4 letters: abater, aerate, aviate, baiter, barbet, barite, beater, beaver, berate, brevet, bribee, rabbet, rabbit, rebait, rebate, terbia, verite.

-5 letters: abate, aerie, aiver, areae, arete, atria, avert, barbe, beret, biter, brava, brave, bravi, breve, bribe, eater, ebbet, evert, evite, irate, rabat, rabbi, reata, reave, rebbe, reive, retia, retie, revet, riata, rivet, taber, terai, tiara, trave, tribe, varia, vitae.

+1 letter: abbreviated, abbreviates, rebarbative.

+3 letters: rebarbatively, unabbreviated.

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