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Narrowed, limited, abbreviated, condensed, etc.: see contract, v. 9. Obsolete.
Contracted in expression; abbreviated, concise.
Abridged, curtailed; brief, scant, curt.
figurative. Condensed, concise.
figurative. Concentrated; condensed.
figurative. Put into small compass, highly compressed, compact; esp. of literary work or style.
transferred or gen. Cut short, abbreviated.
Brief, condensed, compressed; small and compact. Originally U.S.