Definitions from Wiktionary (abbreviate)

▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
▸ verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
▸ adjective:  (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.

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