Vocabulary : Abrenounce to Abridgment

Abrenounce : To renounce.
Abrenunciation : Absolute renunciation or repudiation.
Abreption : A snatching away.
Abreuvoir : The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar.
Abricock : See Apricot.

Abridge : 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.
Abridged : of Abridge
Abridger : One who abridges.
Abridging : of Abridge
Abridgment : The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses. ;; An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. ;; That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.

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