0 to make a book, play, or piece of writing shorter by removing details and information that is not important:
2 to make a written text shorter
The mode of punishment must not abridge the liberty of the defendant.
The legislation abridged the religious freedom of consumers who observe Saturday rather than Sunday as a day of rest.
The people feared that if the state became too powerful, government would abridge the liberties of the people.
He argues that soldiers' patient rights are sometimes abridged and yield to military necessity.
Every reference has to be checked, because most of the entries have been abridged.
The first line says that there are three types of repairs: cancel repair (can), modify repair (mod), and abridge repair (abr).
First, it does not seem true that only a right can justify interfering with or abridging another right.
The usefulness of the main translated text would be much enhanced were the annotations organized, focused, drastically abridged and better informed.
