abbreviated

ab·bre·vi·ate

A0009600 (ə-brē′vē-āt′)tr.v. ab·bre·vi·at·ed, ab·bre·vi·at·ing, ab·bre·vi·ates 1. To make shorter: abbreviated the meeting to make time for your visit. See Synonyms at shorten.2. To reduce (a word or phrase) to a shorter form intended to represent the full form.

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[Middle English abbreviaten, from Late Latin abbreviāre, abbreviāt- : ad-, ad- + breviāre, to shorten (from brevis, short; see mregh-u- in Indo-European roots).]

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ab·bre′vi·a′tor n.

abbreviated

(əˈbriːvɪeɪtɪd) adjmade into a shorter form

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	abbreviated - (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"briefshort - (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
	2.	abbreviated - cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"truncated, shortenedshort - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"

abbreviated

adjective shortened, shorter, reduced, brief, potted, trimmed, pruned, cut, summarized, compressed, concise, condensed, abridged It was an abbreviated document without detailed proposals.
increased, expanded, prolonged, protracted, diffuse, amplified, drawn out, unabridged, unabbreviated

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